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Genesis (Will Trent #3)
by
Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author),
Ineke Lenting
Na de gruweldaad die haar leven in Grant County totaal heeft verwoest, is Sara Linton naar Atlanta gevlucht. Ze is een nieuw leven begonnen en werkt in een ziekenhuis, waar op een dag een zwaar mishandelde vrouw met spoed wordt binnengebracht. Sara raakt in de ban van deze mysterieuze vrouw en gaat op onderzoek uit. Daarbij kruist ze het pad van Will Trent en Faith Mitchel...more
Paperback, 516 pages
Published
July 2009
by Cargo
(first published 2009)
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Jul 03, 2009
Holly
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I received my advance copy yesterday afternoon and I could not put it down until I finished it last night.
This was the best thriller/suspense I have read in a very long time. The characters are three dimensional and their personal stories are so poinant, you can't help but become emotionally invested in them from the very beginning. It had me on the edge of my seat and I honestly didn't figure out who the bad guy was until nearly the end (which is rare for me and a delight when it does happen!)...more
This was the best thriller/suspense I have read in a very long time. The characters are three dimensional and their personal stories are so poinant, you can't help but become emotionally invested in them from the very beginning. It had me on the edge of my seat and I honestly didn't figure out who the bad guy was until nearly the end (which is rare for me and a delight when it does happen!)...more
Tortued... everyone was. Not only the victims...everyone else in the book! The police investigators were more tortured in their own lives than the victims being horribly mutilated. Said that I enjoyed it... felt empathy mixed with frustration with the main characters. Knew "who did it" in the second chapter but still couldn't put it down. Would have liked a more "satisfying ending" but I'm a sucker for tying up loose ends. I think Karin has done great job in fleshing out the characters and givin...more
Karin Slaughter je jedna z těch spisovatelů, kteří vás dokážou s každou další knihou jen více nalákat na pokračování. A i když víte, že vás i v další knize parádně nachytá, stejně si to musíte přečíst, protože chcete sakra vědět, co se děje s vašimi oblíbenými hrdiny. Tak nějak to totiž funguje u mě.
Od posledního velkého případu uběhla pořádná chvíle. Will je ženatý, jeho manželka jej ovšem hned po měsíci soužití opustila, přesto jeho život nepřestává kontrolovat jakkoli se jí zlíbí. Angie už je...more
Od posledního velkého případu uběhla pořádná chvíle. Will je ženatý, jeho manželka jej ovšem hned po měsíci soužití opustila, přesto jeho život nepřestává kontrolovat jakkoli se jí zlíbí. Angie už je...more
Okay, so my latest author obession is now Karin Slaughter!!
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På mange måder minder “Genesis” om ”Tænk på et tal”, som jeg anmeldte for et stykke tid siden: Jeg havde stor fornøjelse af historien, der var meget gådefuld, men efterlod nok spor til at man blev holdt fanget – men det slående lighedspunk var, at begge historier virkede ret konstruerede.
”Genesis” begynder med at en ung kvinde, der er blevet kørt over af en bil, bringes til hospitalet. Kvinden er alvorligt kvæstet, men det står med det samme klart, at kun et fåtal af hendes skade stammer fra påk...more
”Genesis” begynder med at en ung kvinde, der er blevet kørt over af en bil, bringes til hospitalet. Kvinden er alvorligt kvæstet, men det står med det samme klart, at kun et fåtal af hendes skade stammer fra påk...more
I just discovered Karin Slaughter, and as most of you know, there's nothing as good as finding a "new" (to you) author who has many books already published. No "waiting for the next one to come out" anxiety!
Before I had finished "Fractured" I KNEW I had to have "Undone"...and I wasn't disappointed. Slaughter came through for me again, with excellent suspense and a great cast of characters brought to life flawlessly and with depth.
Having never read the 'Grant County' series, I was afraid the rein...more
Before I had finished "Fractured" I KNEW I had to have "Undone"...and I wasn't disappointed. Slaughter came through for me again, with excellent suspense and a great cast of characters brought to life flawlessly and with depth.
Having never read the 'Grant County' series, I was afraid the rein...more
Violence is definitely a limiter for this book. The serial killer rapes, tortures, and mutilates his victims before killing them -- to the extent that the death seems almost a mercy. (The survivors are the truly heartbreaking victims.) The results of the killer's work are explicitly described. It wouldn't "turn off" someone who likes noir and doesn't mind the violence, but it does limit the audience. Note, the violence is realistic and not melodramatic or overdone -- just intensely, and savagely...more
Genesis is een thriller met Will Trent en Sara Linton in de hoofdrol. Will wordt bijgestaan door zijn collega Faith Mitchell. Sara is naar Atlanta verhuisd na de dood van haar man Jeffrey en werkt in het Grady Hospital, waar een zwaarverminkte vrouw word binnengebracht op het moment dat Will en Faith zich ook op de eerste hulp bevinden.
Het boek is geschreven uit het oogpunt van Will Trent/Faith Mitchell, Sara heeft een bijrol in het boek. Leuk dat beide karakters uit de boeken van Karin Slaught...more
Het boek is geschreven uit het oogpunt van Will Trent/Faith Mitchell, Sara heeft een bijrol in het boek. Leuk dat beide karakters uit de boeken van Karin Slaught...more
After karins last book I was a little unsure but have to say that this book has taken me back to being an avid fan again. After reading the last book, I missed the characters I had grown to love in previous books. However this book took us further into the lives of Will Trent and his partner at GBI, Faith Mitchell. These two along with Sara Linton make for fantastic characters which I am looking forward to seeing again in the next book. This story sees Will and Faith hunting a man that is abduct...more
After Jeffrey's murder in Book 6, Sara has moved back to Atlanta, working in the ER of the hospital where she started her career. This pediatrician chose the ER because she doesn't want to create relationships anymore. She just wants to patch people up and move on.
However, a woman is brought to the ER and changes everything. The woman was hit by a car while fleeing from captivity. Suddenly Sara is working with Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Will Trent and Faith Mitchell, who were introdu...more
However, a woman is brought to the ER and changes everything. The woman was hit by a car while fleeing from captivity. Suddenly Sara is working with Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Will Trent and Faith Mitchell, who were introdu...more
I read this book a few months back having decided that I'd like to look into crime fiction, as I've previously never had an interest in this genre. I borrowed 'Genesis' from a friend and I absolutely devoured it!
I am also a CSI fan, and I loved Karin Slaughter's style of writing which is basically CSI in book form! The story starts with the discovery of a horrid and disturbing crime scene with victims who are unable to give witness.
The story is slowly uncovered by the detective and police offic...more
I am also a CSI fan, and I loved Karin Slaughter's style of writing which is basically CSI in book form! The story starts with the discovery of a horrid and disturbing crime scene with victims who are unable to give witness.
The story is slowly uncovered by the detective and police offic...more
I was introduced to Karen Slaughter by chance when I picked up her book Shattered, the one that preceeds this novel, Undone.
In comparison to Undone and the following novel I'm currently reading, Broken, Shattered starts far quicker, dragging the reader into the action quicker. I'm not sure why her style changed, because in my opinion, Shattered ROCKED! But I can't say Undone and Broken don't. They are also fantastic...they just get off to a little slower start. No big deal. But that's the only r...more
In comparison to Undone and the following novel I'm currently reading, Broken, Shattered starts far quicker, dragging the reader into the action quicker. I'm not sure why her style changed, because in my opinion, Shattered ROCKED! But I can't say Undone and Broken don't. They are also fantastic...they just get off to a little slower start. No big deal. But that's the only r...more
Starting a new mystery thriller is a bit like climbing aboard a toboggan at the top of a hill. With a new author doing the driving, you can never be sure what the ride will be like.
Karin Slaughter was a new author to me, and I'm happy to say that Unbound streaked right to the bottom of the hill. Once aboard, I couldn't quit—even if the going did get a bit rough in places.
There are disturbing scenes in this book, but Slaughter seems to know just about how much a reader can take. In the first hal...more
Karin Slaughter was a new author to me, and I'm happy to say that Unbound streaked right to the bottom of the hill. Once aboard, I couldn't quit—even if the going did get a bit rough in places.
There are disturbing scenes in this book, but Slaughter seems to know just about how much a reader can take. In the first hal...more
Jean-Patrick Manchette declared, "The crime novel is the great moral literature of our time." He knew whatof he spoke, since he wrote some of the 20th Century's great French novels before his untimely death.
Karin Slaughter has little in common with Manchette. Unlike his short, dense, narratives, her novels are sprawling. Unlike his brilliant and bizarre experiments, her storytelling style would fit the 19th Century as easily as this one. But she is writing some of the great moral literature of h...more
Karin Slaughter has little in common with Manchette. Unlike his short, dense, narratives, her novels are sprawling. Unlike his brilliant and bizarre experiments, her storytelling style would fit the 19th Century as easily as this one. But she is writing some of the great moral literature of h...more
Karin Slaughter is a native Georgian and sets her novels in Georgia. She has used the fictitious Grant County as the setting for her earlier novels, but she is now using the city of Atlanta.
Those of you who have read her previous novels know that Karin is very graphic in her portrayals of her characters. She is very explicit in her dealings with the crimes committed in her books and leaves very little to the imagination.
In "Undone", Sara Linton, has moved from Grant County to Atlanta. She is try...more
Those of you who have read her previous novels know that Karin is very graphic in her portrayals of her characters. She is very explicit in her dealings with the crimes committed in her books and leaves very little to the imagination.
In "Undone", Sara Linton, has moved from Grant County to Atlanta. She is try...more
I don't like thrillers. I especially avoid the ones that involve horrible things done to women, which is what most of them are about, isn't it? Yet, for some reason, this one grabbed me. Slaughter does character! Yes, there is an intense mystery, here, and the usual horror (thankfully with fewer graphic details than most like to provide, thought still more than I needed, and fewer bodies strewn about than many authors seem to require for the telling of their stories). But mostly, characters are...more
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I just finished listening to Karin Slaughter’s Undone eAudiobook, and I’m pretty sure that I’ve never wanted to stop reading (or listening) to a book so much…well, except for Nicholas Sparks’ Nights In Rodanthe, which I was coerced into reading, and really can’t recommend. While my nausea in that instance was a reaction to Sparks’ treacly story, my aversion to Slaughter’s book was due to it’s horrific descriptions of torture. The details are generally couched in autopsy-speak, so they’re somewha...more
I hadn't read any of her books before, but if they're all like this, I need to check them out.
It's a mystery (and a pretty disturbing one). An old couple is driving home and they hit a woman who stumbles out into the middle of the road. When they go see if she's okay, they see that she's naked and that she's obviously been tortured. Hardcore tortured.
When the cops get there, they find that there are other missing women too.
(This is not a real spoiler, because you learn this early. General gist...more
It's a mystery (and a pretty disturbing one). An old couple is driving home and they hit a woman who stumbles out into the middle of the road. When they go see if she's okay, they see that she's naked and that she's obviously been tortured. Hardcore tortured.
When the cops get there, they find that there are other missing women too.
(This is not a real spoiler, because you learn this early. General gist...more
So I've never really been the "thriller" type. Movies, maybe. But I just never got into reading and enjoying the genre. But recently, my tastes for books seems to be expanding to include different flavors. Yum! But I digress, I don't really know what my expectations were before opening Undone. I was a little intimidated by the size of the book when I received it though. I think I groaned a little. But as I started reading I quickly forgot everything else. Karin Slaughter definitely has a way wit...more
I think that this book may have had more depth had I read the preceding books that had these characters in them. I enjoyed it, but there is a lot of history that was referred to that I didn't have... Faith's preganancy, background of Sarah's husband, etc......
[close:] Undone brings together, for the first time, the small-town residents of Grant County, Georgia, and the hard-bitten cops of Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation in a relentlessly gripping novel.
Sarah Linton has fled to Atlanta seekin...more
[close:] Undone brings together, for the first time, the small-town residents of Grant County, Georgia, and the hard-bitten cops of Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation in a relentlessly gripping novel.
Sarah Linton has fled to Atlanta seekin...more
In Norwegian only..
Dette var en veldig god krim-thriller! Starten av boka dro meg rett inn i handlingen og jeg fant få dødpunkt underveis. Detaljene er rimelig groteske og ikke for dem med dårlig hjerte.. Spenningen i boka er bygget jevnt opp, selv om jeg syns den flatet noe ut i midten før den igjen tok seg opp mot slutten.
Den største styrken til Slaughter ligger i karakteroppbygningen av hovedpersonene Will, Faith og Sara. Slaughter klarer på en svært troverdig måte å bygge opp et persongaller...more
Dette var en veldig god krim-thriller! Starten av boka dro meg rett inn i handlingen og jeg fant få dødpunkt underveis. Detaljene er rimelig groteske og ikke for dem med dårlig hjerte.. Spenningen i boka er bygget jevnt opp, selv om jeg syns den flatet noe ut i midten før den igjen tok seg opp mot slutten.
Den største styrken til Slaughter ligger i karakteroppbygningen av hovedpersonene Will, Faith og Sara. Slaughter klarer på en svært troverdig måte å bygge opp et persongaller...more
first of all i really like the writing of Karin Slaughter
When is started this book, at the first chapter i was like oke, why are these people the beginning of the book, why do i want to know what the were doing.
But after that first chapters the thrill of this book began and i was excited to read more. I wanted to know what was happening and stuff
I do have to say is quit sick what happens to the victims but it's quit well written. You could imagine what it would be like of you where in the vic...more
When is started this book, at the first chapter i was like oke, why are these people the beginning of the book, why do i want to know what the were doing.
But after that first chapters the thrill of this book began and i was excited to read more. I wanted to know what was happening and stuff
I do have to say is quit sick what happens to the victims but it's quit well written. You could imagine what it would be like of you where in the vic...more
This review is specific to the audio version of Undone, narrated by Natalie Ross.
Slaughter’s two literary worlds collide as her Grant County Series merges with her Will Trent series, creating an engrossing thriller that follows the investigation of a gruesome abduction/murder. Three and a half years after we last saw Sara Linton in Beyond Reach, events bring Will Trent and Faith Mitchell into Grady Hospital, where Sara is working. The arrival of a car accident victim displaying signs of torture...more
Slaughter’s two literary worlds collide as her Grant County Series merges with her Will Trent series, creating an engrossing thriller that follows the investigation of a gruesome abduction/murder. Three and a half years after we last saw Sara Linton in Beyond Reach, events bring Will Trent and Faith Mitchell into Grady Hospital, where Sara is working. The arrival of a car accident victim displaying signs of torture...more
This book takes us to one of Atlanta's busiest hospitals and merges two series by Slaughter. Sara Linton is working in the emergency department of the hospital and has been for two years. She has moved away from the house that she shared with her husband and immersed herself in this busy world as a refuge from his tragic death.
When a young woman comes into emergency, naked, hit by a car, and obviously a victim of torture, she becomes involved in a police investigation. Will Trent and Faith Mitch...more
When a young woman comes into emergency, naked, hit by a car, and obviously a victim of torture, she becomes involved in a police investigation. Will Trent and Faith Mitch...more
May 02, 2013
Jackie
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Chilling, horrifying tale of murder, kidnapping, torture and family secrets that special agents Will Trent and his partner Faith Mitchell unravel in the nick of time.
Despite being the third book in this series I was never lost as bits and pieces of scenes from previous books were brought in to flesh out the backstory.
Never have I encountered the twisted mind of a psychopath of the magnitude of the one who was the villain in this book, the author had me squirming in my seat more than once at the...more
Despite being the third book in this series I was never lost as bits and pieces of scenes from previous books were brought in to flesh out the backstory.
Never have I encountered the twisted mind of a psychopath of the magnitude of the one who was the villain in this book, the author had me squirming in my seat more than once at the...more
I can hardly get my thoughts in order after this book. It is probably one of the most compelling books I've read in a while. Between the brutal horror of what was done to the victims and the incredible characters that populated every piece of this novel, I am in awe of Karin Slaughter's storytelling abilities.
To start with... Will. For the love of small furry animals, SOMEBODY GIVE THAT MAN A HUG! AND A COOKIE! AND ANOTHER HUG! I adored him. I want more Will immediately. He's damaged and he make...more
To start with... Will. For the love of small furry animals, SOMEBODY GIVE THAT MAN A HUG! AND A COOKIE! AND ANOTHER HUG! I adored him. I want more Will immediately. He's damaged and he make...more
For me, there's no better way to spend time than reading a very good crime novel. Especially when it's packed with all the interesting stuff, like character background, character development, chemistry and of course a little love (even the twisted kind).
Undone is the first book is Georgia Series, follows the story of two GBI agents, Faith Mitchell and Will Trent and the hunt for a serial killer. This serial killer not only kills woman, but he even rapes them, cuts their bodies, starves them, stu...more
Undone is the first book is Georgia Series, follows the story of two GBI agents, Faith Mitchell and Will Trent and the hunt for a serial killer. This serial killer not only kills woman, but he even rapes them, cuts their bodies, starves them, stu...more
The first book in the "Georgia" series is actually the mash-up of Slaughter's "Grant County" and "Will Trent" series, bringing together the best of both. The result is a twisted, graphic, and enjoyable read. However, if you are familiar with Slaughter's previous books (which I recommend reading in order, just because I'm anal that way), then you know that her main characters (in this case Agents Will Trent, Faith Mitchell,and Dr. Sara Linton) suffer heavily from not only professional, but extrem...more
Loved this book - Slaugher is amazing. It's hard to find authors that can carry characters from one book to the next without having to "rehash" in the first couple of chapters everything that happened in the previous books. I'm so sad for Sara; I might have missed a book between the last book I read, in which Jeffrey died, and this one, which is set 3 and a 1/2 years later, I'll have to check. But I'm praying to God she ends up with Will Trent, who I love and adore. I despise his skanky wife, ev...more
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Karin Slaughter (born 1971), is a US author who debuted with her novel Blindsighted in 2001. It became an international success, made the Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001, and has been published in 23 countries.
Slaughter was born in a small southern Georgia community, and now resides in Atlanta. She is widely credited with first coining the term "investigoogling" in 2006.
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Slaughter was born in a small southern Georgia community, and now resides in Atlanta. She is widely credited with first coining the term "investigoogling" in 2006.
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