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Criminal [electronic resource] : a novel / Karin Slaughter.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792778165 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0792778162 (electronic audio bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital.
- Publisher: North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Unabridged. Duration: 15:35:44. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kathleen Early. |
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| Subject: | Police > Georgia > Atlanta > Fiction. Atlanta (Ga.) > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. FICTION / General |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2012 August
Will Trent's sordid family history and the birth of the career of Amanda Wagner, Trent's boss at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, will engage Slaughter fans in a story that goes back to 1975. The horrific case Wagner cut her teeth on is also part of Trent's back story, so narrator Kathleen Early must transition clearly between the earlier police investigation and the present. Early's composed delivery sets in stark relief the horrors inflicted upon the 1975 victims, who were "pinned down like a specimen in a science project." The rampant and abusive sexism of the Atlanta Police Department is also graphically depicted. Early's best performance is her vocal time travel from the youthful, determined Amanda to the gruff GBI agent she becomes, a narrating feat that also applies to her circle of stalwart sisters. Tension is fine tuned, and characters are subtly shaded in, with Southern accents surprisingly sparse. D.P.D. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2012 May #1
*Starred Review* The fourth entry in Slaughter's Georgia series moves between 1975 and the present day. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent is livid when his boss, Amanda Wagner, keeps him off their latest case. But Amanda has her reasons, and they go back to the 1970s, when Amanda and Evelyn Mitchell were rookies and among the first women hired in the Atlanta Police Department. Despised by their male colleagues, they are treated with the utmost disdain. Sent to take a rape complaint at Techwood Homes, a roach-infested housing project, the two discover that three prostitutes have gone missing, and no one seems to care. Amanda, who still cooks and cleans for her father, a longtime police commander, at first thinks that Evelyn, who is quick with a retort, is somewhat scandalous, but the two bond over their increasingly dangerous investigation, which is continually being stymied by both cops and criminals. And what they discover about what has been done to the missing prostitutes fuels their ire and their ambition. Providing a fascinating backward glance at sexual politics in the workplace as well as a grisly look at a brutal sexual predator, Slaughter delivers another riveting, pulse-pounding crime novel. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: National media attention, including a tie-in with the Save the Libraries campaign, will help launch author Slaughter's twelfth thriller onto the best-seller lists. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews. - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews - Audio And Video Online Reviews 1991-2018
Slaughter's latest Georgia series title offers background details on Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent and boss Amanda Wagner. The story is split between the 1970s and the present day, when a bloodthirsty serial killer returns after a 40-year absence. Early's precise and well-paced narration suits a plot crammed with investigative procedures and gory crime-scene descriptions. She gives Wagner, a tough, no-nonsense investigator, a distinctive voice that captures Wagner's maturation from a rookie police officer in the '70s to her current work as supervisor. Trent, on the other hand, is morose through much of the story, and Early believably interprets his emotional state and feelings. The main characters undergo changes throughout the decades, and Early distinguishes the differences. Equally at home reading the often rough language of good-old-boy white cops, grandiose pimps, and assorted other despicable creatures, Early propels the novel to a satisfying, surprising conclusion. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2012 June #2
Now that Slaughter has put former Grant County Medical Examiner Sara Linton (Broken, 2010) and Faith Mitchell, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (Fallen, 2011), though hell, it's GBI Deputy Director Amanda Wagner's turn on the hot seat, in a jolting case that involves murders separated by 40 years but united in ugliness. Georgia Tech sophomore Ashleigh Snyder has gone missing. The case is a natural for endlessly troubled GBI agent Will Trent, but for some reason Amanda, though she's directed every other available agent to search for Ashleigh, is keeping him off the case. Not only has she banished Will to the airport in a dead-end patrol of men's rooms, he also finds her hanging around the Techwood apartments, geographically close to Ashleigh's place but economically a million miles away. How come? Amanda's motives are rooted in the murder of Jane Delray (or was it Lucy Bennett, as Lucy's brother Hank insisted?) back in 1975, the year Will was born and Amanda was cutting her teeth in the GBI. Shuttling back and forth between that fateful summer and the present, Slaughter links the murder of a prostitute you'd think would have been long forgotten to the fate of Ashleigh Snyder. As per usual in this explosive series, the darkest revelations involve recurring characters. Yet the narrative arcs of the regulars continue to fascinate because Slaughter's not afraid to put them through irreversibly life-changing situations. However successful you find the dizzying alternation between present and past nightmares, this double-barreled load of horrors is the clearest indication yet that Slaughter, like the sage of Yoknapatawpha, is less concerned with the shape of individual novels than with her sprawling, multivolume saga as a whole. Copyright Kirkus 2012 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2012 February #1
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent would like finally to make his life more than just work. But no such luck with a crime from 1975 suddenly making trouble today. Slaughter can of course be lauded as a No. 1 international best-selling author and ITW Silver Bullet Award winner and the guiding light behind the Save the Libraries campaign. Buy multiples.
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In Slaughter's (Fallen; Undone; Faithless) latest thriller, a new case involving a missing college student is connected to Agent Will Trent's troubled past and to the brutal crime that launched his supervisor's career almost 40 years ago. Slaughter offers hungry fans a much-desired return to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, two breakneck-speed criminal investigations to follow, and surprising character development that will leave readers breathless at the novel's end. Verdict Slaughter flawlessly executes a gripping crime novel while offering a nod to Atlanta's complicated history and giving fans' favorite series characters additional depth. Old devotees will be thrilled, and new readers will be hooked.-Colleen S. Harris, Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga Lib. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2012 September #4
Slaughter's latest brings to light heretofore-unknown aspects of the lives of Will Trentâan agent at the Georgia Bureau of Investigationâand his boss, deputy director Amanda Wagner. When a young college student goes missing, the circumstances surrounding the disappearance bring back memories of the first case Wagner worked as a young detective in 1975. What is the connection between the two cases and why has Wagner locked Trent out of the investigation? The answers exist, and Kathleen Early does an excellent job of revealing them as she narrates this complex thriller. Early handles the book's numerous plot twists and shifts in time, pacing, and point of view with aplomb, delivering a compelling and enjoyable listening experience. Confronted with a large cast of characters, Early manages to give each character a distinct voice without falling into caricature or cliché. She is especially effective in her reading of sections of the book set in the 1970s in which Amanda and her partner fight the prejudice of their peers in order to be taken seriously as detectives. A Delacorte hardcover. (July)
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At the outset of Slaughter's tense fourth thriller to combine characters from her two crime series (after 2011's Fallen), life is running smoothly for agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as he eases into a new relationship with Dr. Sara Linton, until the abduction of 19-year-old college student Ashleigh Snyder. When his GBI mentor and boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner, specifically tells him to stay away from the case, Will knows something is wrong. Flashback to 1975, when Amanda is a rookie in the Atlanta Police Department, along with Evelyn Mitchell, who later becomes the mother of Faith, Will's GBI partner. The APD at that time is rife with racism and sexism, but Amanda and Evelyn refuse to abandon the case of several missing prostitutes, despite warnings from other (male) detectives to back off. Slaughter seamlessly shifts between past and present, while her usual attentive eye for character and carefully metered violence is on full display. 6 to 8âcity author tour. Agent: Victoria Sanders, Victoria Sanders & Associates. (July)
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