Criminal: Will Trent - Mass Market Paperbound

by Karin Slaughter (Author)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Forty years. Two chillingly similar cases. One good man's deepest secrets. This "hold-on-to-your hat, nail-biting story" is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder from "one of the best crime novelists in America" (The Washington Post).

"Criminal is [Karin] Slaughter at her most visceral and gut-wrenching best."--HuffPost

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC - This edition includes the short story "Snatched" and an excerpt of Unseen, a Will Trent novel

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 why--until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will's home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda's career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life--and it involves the long-held mystery of Will's birth and parentage. Now 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.

Now these two dauntless investigators must each face down demons from the past . . . or risk unleashing an even greater terror.

Author Biography

Karin Slaughter is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of numerous thrillers, including Cop Town, Unseen, Criminal, Fallen, Broken, Undone, Fractured, Beyond Reach, Triptych, Faithless, and the e-original short stories "Snatched" and "Busted." She is a native of Georgia.