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Broken

Written by Karin Slaughter

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New York Times bestseller Karin Slaughter set some of her most loved thrillers in Grant County. In Broken, Sara Linton returns to see her family in Grant, the place where she suffered her greatest loss. Her past life as the town's medical examiner won't let her go, however, as she is asked to consult with a young prisoner accused of murder. The alleged crimes wrench at Sara, but the apparent police cover-up sends her to the phone, bringing in Will Trent from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. In a case that takes countless breathtaking turns, Slaughter, "at the summit of the school of writers specializing in forensic medicine and terror," (The Times [London]) mines to the core of her characters to find a story that is startlingly sinister, and irrepressibly human.

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Release dateJun 22, 2010
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Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. She is the author of more than twenty instant New York Times bestselling novels, including the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and standalone novels The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls. An international bestseller, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is a #1 Netflix original series, Will Trent is a television series starring Ramón Rodríguez on ABC, and further projects are in development for television. Karin Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book did keep me turning pages I had no idea who the murderer was until that fact was revealed. The story moves along at a good pace.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a short story of a newish D/s pair where the sub had been previously abused by his former Dom. It was a fine story, but the dynamics of the pair (the sub being very timid and childlike) was not my kink so the story left me cold. If that's your thing, this will certainly turn your crank, I've no doubt.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The fourth book of the Will Trent series opens late one night when a young woman is pulled from the lake. At first it looks like a suicide until the medical examination proves it is most definitely murder. Detective Lena Adams, a central character is Slaughter's Grant county series , along with Police Chief Frank Wallace go to the victim's apartment where they discover a masked intruder holding a knife. Things fall apart immediately and before long, one of the police officers is in the hospital. They take the suspect, Tommy Brahm, to jail and he eventually confesses. Lena and Frank and the entire local police force are convinced of Tommy's guilt, but this is just the beginning of a fascinating story.

    Meanwhile Dr. Sara Linton is back home in Grant County for Thanksgiving. She gets a call from Frank telling her that her former patient, Tommy, desperately wants to see her. When she arrives at the jail, circumstances cause her to place a call to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Will Trent is brought in. He starts investigating the police force, but it slowly turns into an investigation into the murder of the woman pulled out of the lake.

    This is a difficult book to review without adding spoilers. The author has merged two series together and there's a lot of backstory here, especially Sara's hatred of Lena, the woman she blames for her husband's death several years ago. I've read the series before and am currently listening to them in audio. The author dies a wonderful job of portraying both good and bad sides of each character. Her ability to create realistic, three-dimensional characters is what makes this such a standout suspense series.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Twenty-one year old Allison Spooner is at the end of her rope. She is short of money, her boyfriend has disappointed her, and her rusted-out hulk of a car is on its last legs. She is struggling to keep up with her college classes at Georgia's Grant Tech while earning a pittance as a waitress in a diner. Sadly, her dream of escaping her tedious life is shattered by and unknown assailant. Evidence tells a darker story.

    Karin Slaughter depicts the characters as three-dimensional human beings, warts and all, most of whom would like to fix what is broken in their lives. Unfortunately, not everyone has the courage, honesty, and motivation to face the truth and take the necessary steps to rectify what is wrong.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Sara Linton returns home for the Thanksgiving holidays only to find another mystery dogging her path. She is called in by her late husband's colleague as one of his prisoner's keeps asking for her. When she gets to the police station, the prisoner in question is dead, from an apparent suicide. But Sara immediately becomes suspicious of the police and their motives when she finds that he supposedly signed a confession to the murder of a young college student. She calls in Will Trent, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent who arrives to investigate. But the local officers close rank and try as hard as they can to make Will's investigation impossible, sticking to the story that the dead prisoner killed the college student and then killed himself in remorse. But within a day or so, another student from the same university also gets killed in a similar manner and no one can deny that there is more to this story than earlier thought. I had never heard of Karin Slaughter or read any of her previous books until I read Undone last year. Broken continues along the same lines as Undone and has Sara and Will working together. One of the great things about these books is that the characters are flawed and damaged though not so much that their angst detracts from the story. In Broken, Will is still navigating his way around life and his profession while struggling with his dyslexia. Sara is still raw from the death of her husband and hates going back home because it causes all the memories to flood back. As they investigate this crime, Sara must deal with the knowledge of Lena's involvement in the case. Lena was her late husband's partner whose actions precipitated his death. Maybe because I have only read one of Slaughter's book before this one but I felt like the character of Lena got off unscathed despite her conniving ways. I will go back and reread those parts but it just seems to me like she was a woman who knew how to manipulate those around her and get enough people to feel bad for her because she would convince herself of her own innocence. The writing in this book was not as well done as the previous book but I still found it enjoyable enough. The resolution of the mystery was a bit meh for me and I felt that Slaughter could have done much better. Many times when I read mysteries I do not try to guess who did it but just go with the flow but I also don't like when the resolution comes and it feels like the culprit came out of nowhere. But all in all, I did enjoy the book.*Review copy provided by Amazon.com's Vine Program.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Great story keeps you riveted until the very end.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Karin Slaughter is the absolute best crime/mystery writer I have come across in this day and age. Her novels will simply astound you with their heart-racing moments and intrigue. Every time I pick one of her novels up I cannot stop reading until I'm done and I still find myself begging for more. She's a writer with no fear! She wields her instruments like a knife ready to dig in deep and take you by surprise at every turn!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Slaughter is a awesome story teller. I loved the diversity of the characters and the twists and turns in the story. Intriguing and suspenseful to the end. A great read. I really enjoyed it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I haven't exactly forgiven Karin Slaughter for her "another damn dead lover" a couple of books back.

    (My tag for authors who kill off a character after the character has become part of a committed (mostly married) couple and both characters have been around for several books.)

    And I don't tend to like authors who have a number of characters used as viewpoint characters, who are so flawed and unhappy and broken as Slaughter's tend to be.

    But she pulls it off - sort of. I still care what happens to these people.

    Sara Linton, a doctor is back in the town where her husband was killed four years ago, and gets some beginnings of being able to move on. Will Trent, from another sequence by this author moves forward a little in his ongoing coping with his demons - a broken childhood and dyslexia.

    Not a book to read if you are looking for a happy read, but well enough done to overcome my strong prejudice against books like this.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I continue to really enjoy Will Trent as a unique character in law enforcement fiction.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Love the Will Trent series! This doesn't disappoint. A must read!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This book has the great merit of being written in a grammatical correct manner; not much more than that, and I am inclined to think that the merit goes to the dutch translator...In this book the world is divided between two kind of people: the heroes, good, honest, disciplined, loving, suffering, but destined to a bright future and true happiness; and the villain, corrupted, alcoholics, addicted, greedy, enjoying themselves in ways we might all be jealous in our deepest dreams we would never share; those will die in pain, by cancer and in solitude, or killed by the heroes. There is even a third category: people in between, they might go wrong or they might redeem, but they will never join True Happiness.What a waist of ink, and what a waist of talent. I have read a short story from Karin Slaughter, and it was funny and full of irony. This one is not even worth recycling.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I would have to agree with most of the reviews below. I thought when one of the main characters back a few books was killed off that the books would never be the same, and that is true but they are still worth reading. This one wasn't my favorite of Karin's, but definitely worth reading if you are into the series. Hopefully Fallen will be better!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Truly one of Slaughter's best books! I was so disappointed when a few books back a main charactors was killed off and I thought the books would never be the same. They were still great but this one tops them all.Can be a stand alone read but I think it will be enjoyed much better if you have read the other Grant County books in the series and know the backgrounds of the old characters.Thanks so much First Reads for a chance to read this before it's release. I highly recommend it!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Karin Slaughter is the absolute best crime/mystery writer I have come across in this day and age. Her novels will simply astound you with their heart-racing moments and intrigue. Every time I pick one of her novels up I cannot stop reading until I'm done and I still find myself begging for more. She's a writer with no fear! She wields her instruments like a knife ready to dig in deep and take you by surprise at every turn!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A medical doctor, she returns to the town where her husband was killed in the line of duty (a cop). She believes his partner was responsible for his death and she is unable to move on. There are a couple of murders; one is drown in the lake and the other is stabbed. A third is also killed. They find the killer and the partner is exonerated.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My opinion: Like I've said before, I try not to read other peoples' reviews on books, or even their ratings before starting on a book. Especially when it's one of my favorite authors and I'm going to read it regardless. I saw some less than stellar reviews for this book and I thought "Uh oh, I hope this isn't going to be dry like Fractured (the only book by Karin Slaughter that I really couldn't get into). I've had trouble getting past Jeffrey's death, which is so weird to say because he's just a fictional character. But after that many books, you begin to feel like you actually know them and when one of the characters dies (especially a main character), you feel like you lost a best friend. This book is essentially based around the corruption that has befallen the police department after Jeffrey died. Frank, Lena's partner has taken over Jeffrey's job and he is definitely letting too many things slide, not doing things by the books at all. Sara is back in Grant County for a few days and still wants Lena to pay for causing Jeffrey's death. She tries her hardest not to get involved in the homicide investigation, but she soon becomes engrossed in it and with the help of Will Trent, starts to uncover some shocking omissions and coverups by the police. Lena knows Frank is covering up and hiding evidence, but since she was involved in the case she tries to go along with the official story (and I think with her history with Frank she still feels a certain loyalty to him as well). I found this book to be pretty fast-paced; I finished it in one sitting. Karin Slaughter's books just suck me in and I get lost in their world all over again. I keep hoping Sara will wake up and Jeffrey's death will all be just a dream, but I know that won't happen. When Will first came on the scene, I just couldn't fathom him and Sara becoming an item (how dare she even think about finding someone else, no one can replace Jeffrey!). The more we get to know Will though, the more I just want Sara to be happy and I think they would be good for each other. Unforunately we run into the road block that is Will's sometimes present wife, Angie, who treats him like dog crap and cheats on him, yet he always runs right back to her. I get that he has a long past with her that no one else understands, but I hope eventually he sees how toxic she is for him. I think Sara really starts to heal in this book and that's nice to see. All in all, a great read. Slaughter delivers again, a great new addition to the Grant County series. Already looking forward to the next one! My rating: 5/5 stars
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Karin Slaughter is one of my favorite authors, so I might be biased. I started reading after dinner last night and I went to bed at 3:30am when I finished the book.My favorite quote in the novel is, "I'm a missionary, you dumbass. What do you think I've been doing for the last three years?" Sara Linton's little sister Tessa is hilarious!Okay, all that said, there was something just slightly off with the ending and I've NEVER felt anything off kilter in a Karin Slaughter book before. ***SPOILER ALERT*** I think it had something to do with how neatly everything wrapped up with Darla, Frank and Frank's ex. Darla just came out of nowhere. I'll have to go back to the other books, but I don't remember Frank having a rotten daughter. Maybe she had a minor role and I don't remember. And as dirty a cop as Frank is, and with his and Lena's shared history of covering up their mistakes, I don't get why he thought she would just do as he told her to without him telling her anything about his daughter. He knows how impulsive she is!And Jared! What is he thinking?! Lena might not be maliciously evil, but for her to willfully ignore her own tendencies to bring misery to those close to her with her bad decisions and then hook up with Jeffrey's son as an escape...I could just throttle both of them! Ugh! It's killing me to think what might happen to him in the future! Will Trent caught my heart in Tryptich and I am so glad Karin merged the two series. The anticipation of Will and Sara getting together is making me crazy. I am so ready for the next installment.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is the first book that I have read by Karin Slaughter. I really liked the book, thought it was a great mystery. Sine I have never read anything by Karin I knew nothing about the characters of the book. I found the book really hard to put down. I liked the way the characters and the plot were developed. I would read other books by the author.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The title of this book could describe the characters. Officer Lena Adams of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, is called to the scene where a suicide note was found at a lover's lane by Lake Grant. When divers recover the body of a young woman, Lena sees a stab wound toward the rear of the woman's neck and knows it's a murder.The girl is identified as Allison Spooner, a college student and waitress at a nearby restaurant.Lena accompanies acting chief, Frank Wallace, to Allison's apartment. On route, Lena smells alcohol on Frank and observes him drinking from a flask.They are met by a young and overly enthusiastic detective, Brad Stevens. Brad looks in the apartment window and sees a person who they believe is Allison's boyfriend, Tommy Braken. He has a mask on and is holding a knife.In the attempt to question Tommy, Brad is stabbed and taken to a hospitol. Tommy is arrested.In the jail, Tommy commits suicide and in looking at his background we find that he was a flawed character, a boy of only nineteen-years-old with an i.q. of around eighty.Dr. Sara Lingon arrives home for Thanksgiving. She had been married to the former chief of police and was the coroner. She's asked to come to the jail to speak to Tommy before people learn of Tommy's suicide.When Sara learns of the suicide and that Lena was the interrigator, Sara believes that this is another case of Lena not doing her job correctly. She calls in Special Agent, Will Trent, to investigate a possible case of police neglect.Of the characters, Lena's flaw is that she feels guilt over the former chief's death. Even though she was cleared of any wrong doing, she feels responsible.Acting Chief Wallace's flaw is that he is an alcoholic and heading toward a breakdown.Sara's flaw is that she cannot forgive Lena and wants her to pay for causing Sara's husband's death.The police investigate Allison's murder and Tommy's suicide. Will Trent is an appealing character and someone the reader can route for. His flaw is that he has dyslexia and has some difficulty relating to people since he grew up in a foster home.There is an interesting portrayal of town and university. The university doesn't want any bad publicity and sometimes attempts to hinder investigations.I believe that readers will enjoy the contemporary story and see that it could have been lifted from the pages of a local newspaper of a city that has a large university.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Everyone has a secret in Karin Slaughter's new book Broken.Dr. Sara Linton has reluctantly returned home to Grant County for the Thanksgiving holiday. Since the death of her husband, the town's former police chief Jeffery Tolliver, Sara has avoided the entire police force and in particular police officer Lena Adams, her nemesis, but within hours of arriving home she finds herself in a jail cell with a dead prisoner. Immediately suspicious of the circumstances and Lena's involvement Sara calls in special agent Will Trent. Is Lena the dirty, dangerous cop Sara has always accused her of being or is the whole force corrupt? Trent will need to remain emotionally detached and follow the facts but as the bodies pile up his own secrets could get in the way.Broken brings together Slaughter's Grant County and Atlanta series but readers can jump in here with no knowledge of any of the previous events. A tight suspense.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This novel bring Will Trent to Grant County to help with a series of murders. Although I enjoyed this book, the 5th Karin Slaughter book I have read, it was not quite as good as the previous ones I have read. I have a few in between I need to catch up on to give me a better understanding of exactly what happened between Sarah and Lena and the death of Jeffery. I definitely like Karin's form of writing and look forward to reading many more of her books.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I am a big Karin Slaughter fan, and have read all of her previous books. This one did not disappoint. Her characters are always well developed and interesting. Always a great read. I would recommend this book to anyone who has read the previous books, or to someone new to her writing.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another compelling read from Karin Slaughter. Sara Linton and Will Trent make a good team, and I find myself hoping that these two will end up together romantically eventually.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is my first book by Karin Slaughter, that I recieved through the ER program. This book kept me turning pages well into the night. I felt for every character. It's well writen and the characters are enjoyable. Keeps you guessing until the end. This certainly won't be my last book by Karin Slaughter.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is another excellant book by Karin Slaughter.This latest book has Sara Linton returning to Grant County and becoming embroiled in the deaths of three people and the person she holds responsible for her husbands death. This is a great read and will keep you guessing until the end. A great read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was my first Karin Slaughter book but it certainly will not be my last! This is a top notch mystery that kept me on the edge of my seat guessing until the end! Can't wait to read more by this author! :)
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is the first book that I have read by Karin Slaughter, but certainly not my last! It was also another book from "LT early reviews".I had a tough time putting this book down. An outstanding story teller, Karin Slaughter knows how to keep a reader spellbound and on the edge of his seat frantically turning pages. Slaughter keeps the reader involved as the story evolves and the killer's motive comes to light while putting main characters lives in jeopardy. I enjoyed this thriller from beginning to end and can hardly wait to read more from this excellent writer and fabulous story teller.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Highly original characters, plot and location set this book apart from the run of the mill mystery. Slaughter begins her tale by pitting two good but flawed (in other words very real) women against each other in the wake of the murder of a college student over the Thanksgiving holiday. Dr. Sara Linton uses her influence to get Georgia Bureau of Investigation detective, Will Trent, sent in from Atlanta to "nail" small-town detective Lena Adams whom she blames for the death of her husband and believes is now the cause of the death of another innocent victim. Lena is caught in the web of a corrupt police chief and is trying to do the right thing. The brilliant and dyslexic Trent brings with him some big city police forensics to help in the investigation, but it is his low tech observational skills and common sense that captivate the reader. Very well done.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Once again, Karin Slaughter has presented a thriller that exposes her characters in new and disquieting ways. Dr. Sara Linton is back in her hometown for the first time in three years. She is planning a quiet Thanksgiving with her family before escaping back to her new life in Atlanta. A mysterious phone call from a woman calling herself Julie Smith is quickly followed by a call from Frank, the old timer cop who has become the de facto police chief since the murder of Sara's husband, Jeffrey, three years before. Although Sara resists, she is nonetheless dragged into a chaotic case in which a former patient of hers has confessed to killing a local college girl. When Sara arrives to find the boy, who is mentally retarded, dead by his own hand, she determines that the arresting officer,Lena Adams, the woman responsible for Jeffrey's death, has caused this boy's death too. She calls the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Will Trent is dispatched immediately to get to the bottom of it all.Frank, Lena, and Will are the centerpieces of this story and it is their interactions that move the story forward. Each one is desperately hiding secrets but only one of them wants the truth to come out. Will and Sara start a slow dance of mutual interest, both hampered by their pasts. In the middle of this is a killer who will go to any lengths to survive and escape justice.