Will Trent · Book 7

Criminal

by Karin Slaughter

Published
3 July 2012
Pages
448
ISBN-13
9781445826622
Type
novel

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About this book

Criminal (2012, 448 pages), the sixth novel, is one of the series' most significant entries: it excavates Amanda Wagner's history in the 1970s Atlanta Police Department and reveals the secret of Will's own parentage, deepening the mystery of his abandonment as a baby that has run beneath the series since Triptych.

Its place in Will Trent

Criminal is book 7 in the Will Trent series. It follows Snatched. It is followed by Busted. See the full Will Trent reading order.

Will Trent is a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and one of crime fiction's most distinctive detectives: abandoned as a baby, raised brutally in Atlanta's foster system, and severely dyslexic in a job built on paperwork. He compensates with obsessive observation and a near-perfect memory for what people say and do, closing cases other agents can't while hiding the reading disability he is sure will end his career. Around him Karin Slaughter builds a ferocious ensemble — his volatile partner…

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