Will Trent Series
Author; Karin Slaughter
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Book 1
Triptych
Synopsis.
From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread—and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael’s lover before she became his enemy. But unbeknownst to both of them, another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer’s trail in the most coincidental of ways—and who may be the key to breaking the case wide open.
In this gritty, gripping firecracker of a novel, the author of the bestselling Grant County, Georgia, series breaks thrilling new ground, weaving together the threads of a complex, multilayered story with the skill of a master craftsman. Packed with body-bending switchbacks, searing psychological suspense and human emotions, Triptych ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as it races to a shattering and unforgettable climax.
Thoughts.
This was such a good, well written book. The extra details is what sets this author apart from most. The side stories that all tie into the main story is amazing.
We meet Will in this first book. Get to know his background while he is still working on a case and his personal life. I loved the part about how he acquired the dog, I ended up with my chihuahua almost the same way and I really felt it.
I figured out who was behind everything almost right away but that was ok because the story was almost about everyone else figuring it out. The relationship between everyone involved.
Book 2
Fractured
Synopsis.
With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare hands.
Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is here only to do a political favor; the murder site belongs to the Atlanta police. But Trent soon sees something that the cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the shell-shocked mother. Within minutes, Trent is taking over the case—and adding another one to it. He is sure that another teenage girl is missing, and that a killer is on the loose.
Armed with only fleeting clues, teamed with a female cop who has her own personal reasons for hating him, Trent has enemies all around him—and a gnawing feeling that this case, which started in the best of homes, is cutting quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.
Thoughts.
So many crazy things happen in this one! It's a detailed in such a way that you can play out what's happening.
This book is high paced, high energy and I could not put it down.
Book 3
Undone
Synopsis.
In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky—and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one instant, Sara is thrust into a frantic police investigation, coming face-to-face with a tall driven detective and his quiet female partner…. In Undone, three unforgettable characters from Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling novels Faithless and Fractured collide for the first time, entering an electrifying race against the clock—and a duel with unspeakable human evil.
In the backwoods of suburban Atlanta, where Sara’s patient was found, local police have set up their investigation. But Georgia Bureau of Investigation detective Will Trent doesn’t wait for the go-ahead from his boss—he plunges through police lines, through the brooding woods, and single-handedly exposes a hidden house of horror buried beneath the earth. Then he finds another victim.…
Wresting the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner, Faith Mitchell—a woman keeping explosive secrets of her own—are called into a related investigation. Another woman—a smart, upscale, independent young mother—has been snatched. For the two cops out on the hunt, for the doctor trying to bring her patient back to life, the truth hits like a hammer: the killer’s torture chamber has been found, but the killer is still at work.
In her latest suspense masterpiece, Karin Slaughter weaves together the moving, powerful human stories of characters as real as they are complex and unforgettable. At the same time she has crafted a work of dazzling storytelling and spine-tingling mystery—as three people, each with their own wounds and their own secrets, are all that stands between a madman and his next crime.
Thoughts.
So many crazy things happen in this one! I already knew who the killer was based on the Hulu series. It didn't change the fact that I couldn't put this one down as has been the case with the others.
These are so very well written and detailed yet simple and to the point.
The awfulness of the characters in the book proves that no matter what the police are there to do their jobs
Book 4
Broken
Synopsis.
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death. He doesn’t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn’t understand her role in the death of Grant County’s popular police chief. He doesn’t understand why that man’s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case.
While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she’s already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton’s passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver’s death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets―and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.
Thoughts.
I didn't read the Grant County series first, but I also didn't know too. We were introduced to Sara in the previous book but now we get a deeper glimpse into her life.
I love when movies and books use sleight of hand, they show you one thing then later explain how it really happened, and this book does just that!
I truly felt bad for ever character that died in this book. You could also feel Will's anxiety come through the words.
I didn't expect the ending, I didn't think it was the person who it was.
Book 5
Fallen
Synopsis.
There’s
no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s
mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s
a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed
behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations
taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her
mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room.
She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see
is her mother. . . .
“You know what we’re here for.
Hand it over, and we’ll let her go.”
When the
hostage situation turns deadly, Faith is left with too many
questions, not enough answers. To find her mother, she’ll need the
help of her partner, Will Trent, and they’ll both need the help of
trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isn’t just a cop anymore—she’s
a witness. She’s also a suspect.
The thin blue line
hides police corruption, bribery, even murder. Faith will have to go
up against the people she respects the most in order to find her
mother and bring the truth to light—or bury it forever.
Thoughts.
I find myself again wishing I'd known to read the Grant County series first, since Sara is now a main character. It seemed to be ok but going backwards will be strange.
First off, Karin Slaughter writes in a way that you feel what the characters are feeling. The panic, the shock, the trauma. It's a little crazy and I love every second of it.
This book gives answers to some questions I've had. Since the investigation is talked about ALOT but except for the details in the previous books you don't get the entire picture of it. This book answers a ton.
Love the addition of the neighbor!
Book 6
Criminal
Synopsis.
Will
Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him.
Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably
kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director
Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two
of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both
been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before—when Will’s
father was imprisoned for murder—this was his home. . . .
Flash
back nearly forty years. In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda
Wagner is going to college, making Sunday dinners for her father,
taking her first steps in the boys’ club that is the Atlanta Police
Department. One of her first cases is to investigate a brutal crime
in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. Amanda and her partner,
Evelyn, are the only ones who seem to care if an arrest is ever
made.
Now the case that launched Amanda’s career has
suddenly come back to life, intertwined with the long-held mystery of
Will’s birth and parentage. And these two dauntless investigators
will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to
prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.
Thoughts.
Finally! A backstory! I loved this so much. What great writing where the original case intertwines with the current case.
Everything just comes together so seamlessly in this book. It's hard to put down because you want to know about the original case and the new case, and you just can't.
Snatched
A short story available after Criminal
Synopsis.
On assignment at Atlanta's busy airport Special Agent Will Trent is forced to make a split-second decision. But is it the right one?
Thoughts.
This takes off from Will's assignment in Criminal. The airport bathroom duty. This is an edge of your seat short story that will keep you reading!
You can feel Will's intuition kick in. You can feel the conflation coming into play. Is this bad or am I reading too much into this?!
Book 7
Unseen
Synopsis.
Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around Macon, Georgia, and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But undercover and cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him.
Although she has
no idea where Will has gone, or why, Sara herself has come to Macon
because of a cop shooting: Her stepson, Jared, has been gunned down
in his own home. Sara holds Lena, Jared’s wife, responsible: Lena,
a detective, has been a magnet for trouble all her life, and Jared’s
shooting is not the first time someone Sara loved got caught in the
crossfire. Furious, Sara finds herself involved in the same case that
Will is working without even knowing it, and soon danger is swirling
around both of them.
Thoughts.
I found this one to be a little confusing. The back and forth was cut differently than the other books. It was still really good!
Lena is trouble and even though I never read the Grant County Series I already know when she is around something bad is going to happen!
While watching a show called “Buried in the Backyard” one of the stories revolve around someone named Tony Dill, the same as this book.
Busted
A short story available after Unseen
Synopsis.
FBI Special Agent, Will Trent, is on his way to Macon for an undercover assignment when he unwittingly becomes involved in a violent robbery at a gas station.
Thoughts.
This is what happens before unseen. It's pretty wild and I wanted to read it all at once
Book 8
The Kept Woman
Synopsis.
With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop.
Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found.
Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers—a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away.
But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues.
Thoughts.
This one I admit had a hard time following, there was a few back-and-forth story lines. In the end it was pretty good, as always, these books are hard to put down
Book 9
The Last Widow
Synopsis.
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor.
A devastating explosion
One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhood’s has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC.
A diabolical enemy
Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.
Thoughts.
This was crazy. I could feel Sara's fear. This certainly didn't end the way I thought it would, it was much crazier than that!
Book 10
The Silent Wife
Synopsis.
Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will Trent to the state penitentiary, and to a prisoner who says he recognizes the MO. The attack looks identical to the one he was accused of eight years earlier. The prisoner’s always insisted that he was innocent, and now he’s sure he has proof. The killer is still out there.
As Will digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the original case in order to reach the truth. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear. And now he needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake…
Thoughts.
This author writes with such detail that you can feel the emotions of the characters in the book, you feel exactly what they are going through.
To say I was shocked by the who in this one is an understatement!
Book 11
After that Night
Synopsis.
After that night, nothing was ever the same again …
Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her.
Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper's assault is uncannily linked to Sara's.
And it seems the past isn't going to stay buried forever …
Thoughts:
We finally get some answers in this book.
I admitt that I should have read Grant County Series first, however I didn't know about it. We get answers to some of the easter eggs in the Will Trent Series.
I spent the entire book trying to put the pieces together myself.
Book 12
This is why we lied
Synopsis;
Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer…
A secluded cabin retreat
For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.
A murderer in their midst
Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain. But as Will and Sara investigate the McAlpine family and the other guests, they realize that everyone here is lying….Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves.
Who killed Mercy McAlpine?
It soon becomes clear that normal rules don’t apply at McAlpine Lodge, and Will and Sara are going to have to watch their step at every turn. Trapped on the resort, they must untangle a decades-old web of secrets to discover what happened to Mercy. And with the killer poised to strike again, the trip of a lifetime becomes a race against the clock…
Thoughts:
I admittidly had a hard time getting into this one. Once it started to go, it went! I was actually shocked by the who did it.
Will Trent
Came out; 2024
Where to Watch: ABC/Hulu
Rated: TV-MA
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Cast
Ramon Rodriguez as Will Trent
Erika Christensen as Angie Polaski
Iantha Richardson as Faith Mitchell
Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood
Sonja Sohn as Amanda Wagner
Cora Lu Tran as Nico
Caution: Spoiler Alert
Story Line:
The series revolves around special agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. But now, determined to use his unique point of view to make sure no one is abandoned like he was, Will Trent has the highest clearance rate in the GBI
Thoughts:
This show is amazing
As with most, there are marked differences, especially in story lines as it's harder to write something and have it acted out in one show.
This show is so good! The season finally for season 1 was heartbreaking!
I also like TV show Angie better than book Angie
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