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    Undone: A Will Trent Thriller
    Undone: A Will Trent Thriller
    Undone: A Will Trent Thriller
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    Undone: A Will Trent Thriller

    Written by Karin Slaughter

    Narrated by Kathleen Early

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 16, 2019
    ISBN9780062895899
    Undone: A Will Trent Thriller
    Author

    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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    • 5/5
      Starts fast and keeps you in its grip. A great read.
    • 5/5
      “Undone” by Karin Slaughter is a fine addition to the library of crime drama readers. For readers of her previous books it brings together 3 characters they already know, Sara Linton, Will Trent, and Faith Mitchell while readers new to Slaughter will enjoy getting to know them for the first time. Suspenseful and engrossing the book brings them together and entangles them in a case that finds them racing against time to save women taken, held captive and tortured by an unknown person. From the moment a naked woman stumbles onto a highway and is hit by a car until the final scene this book will keep your attention and have you wanting to keep reading long past when you should have already put it down and gone to bed. Similar in some ways to Patricia Cornwall's Scarpetta books it doesn't have the gloominess that some of the later Scarpetta novels have and that is a welcome difference. This is a must read for Slaughter fans and highly recommended to everyone else.
    • 4/5
      Two women were held and tortured in a small cave dug into the ground. They escape, one survives, and the investigation begins: who are they and who did this to them? The author has combined her two series and so Sara Linton from Grant County works with Will Trent and Faith Mitchell from Atlanta.For some reason I've always enjoyed the Will Trent series more, probably because whereas 'Triptych' blew me away, 'Blindsighted' was "merely" very good. The combination of the two works. Although this book starts and ends with Sara, most of the time is spent with Will and Faith, and since it's their turf this makes sense. As usual the author uses the time to expand on their personal lives as well as the case and more than once I wanted to lean my head right into the book and and yell at the characters about the mistakes they were making.I enjoyed this book almost as much as 'Triptych.' It's a good and gut-wrenching mystery with solid investigation and another step in the lives of a few very flawed characters. Can't wait for the next.
    • 5/5
      Last night I finished Undone by Karin Slaughter.This is an ER book for me, and was published in July of 2009.Once again, her writing did not disappoint. In fact, her skills are top notch.This is a book that I would recommend to any reader who likes reading about crime fiction, and enjoys characters and dialogue that are interesting and genuine. You may like some of them with great affection and be completely repelled by others.The plot moves along quickly with surprising and interesting twists and turns. The sense of place is excellent. Not for any reader who is too squeamish reading about violence, torture and some brief sexual episodes that are integral to revealing deeper character development of the principal players.WH Five Stars
    • 4/5
      I received this book as an arc. It is my first by this author and I loved it. I felt like I was reading an episode from Criminal Minds. I have picked up several books by Karin Slaughter since reading Undone.
    • 4/5
      I received an ARC copy of Undone by Karin Slaughter - but it turns out that this novel is to be published under the name of Genesis outside of the United States. A little confusing perhaps, but there you go. I don't know why one name wasn't chosen, and I do think that Genesis is more evocative name. Maybe the religious connotations are too much for the U.S.?Karin Slaughter is one of the leading lights in the crime thriller genre and she has had a hugely successful career to date. She is the author of two series - the Grant County series featuring doctor Sara Linton and the Atlanta series featuring policeman Will Trent. Apparently this novel is the 7th in the Grant County series, the 3rd in the Atlanta series and the first in a new series, the Georgia series, which will feature both main characters. This merging of two stories will surely please dedicated fans, while cutting down on the amount of writing that Slaughter has to do.Someone is taking kidnapping successful women and holding them prisoner in a foul, underground, cave which has been dug from the earth itself. When a car collides with one of the women, who has escapted from her captor, but is tortured and starving, Trent, and his partner Faith Mitchell, find themselves on the trail of a horrific and sadistic mind. When the woman is taken to hospital, Sara Linton is the attending physician and she is horrified by the pain and condition of the woman, who calls herself Anna. Her suffering and pain is beyond belief. When reports filter through of a similar woman being kidnapped, Trent and Mitchell know that they are in a race against time.It's easy to read this book without needing to read the previous novels. While you will be aware of past history, Slaughter does a good job of providing enough information to get you involved. The crimes described in this book are dark and ugly but Slaughter gives her lead characters more than enough human frailty and honesty to compensate for the dark nature. They are genuinely likeable people. Additionally, I felt that the author did a great job of taking the reader through the internal thoughts of a detective who is working to solve a case, as well as showing us how inter-departmental politics can jeopardise an investigation.The novel did feel a little rushed towards the end - and somehow, the ends came together a little too neatly. But Slaughter isn't the first author to fall into this trap and she won't be the last. Overall, this is a good, personable crime thriller. Fans of the genre are bound to enjoy it, and new readers will surely be encouraged to pick up another Slaughter novel.
    • 4/5
      I wanted to finish reading Undone with the ability to say that I completely enjoyed the experience. I honestly can't say that I did.While I very much enjoyed the story with its intrigue, twists, turns, and action I found more than one of the characters to be completely unlikable. Of the main protagonists in this novel, I thoroughly enjoyed Will and Faith's chemistry together. I loved their humanism and their quirks. Sara, on the other hand, seemed to be such a cliched "brooding-dark-character-with-a-troubled-past" for my liking. It is very possible, of course, that since this is the first Slaughter book that I've read that I simply don't understand Sara's construct. Regardless, I found her to be more of an annoyance than anything else.Otherwise I found this book to be a really delightful read. I can completely understand how fans of Ms. Slaughter can't resist coming back to her writing over and over again.If you're generally new to this genre or just aren't a fan, like me, then Ms. Slaughter might be a very good author to begin your journey.
    • 5/5
      The start of a relationship between Sara and Will.
    • 5/5
      Karin Slaughter's newest book, "Undone", lives up to its name. I think we can all relate to that feeling of coming unglued or coming apart at the seams. If you are just discovering Karin Slaughter as an author, you are in for a treat ... but you also have a decision to make. If you read "Undone" first, you will discover some plot secrets that will make reading her previous books not quite as interesting. I recommend reading "Fractured" first to understand the nuances of Will Trent and Faith Mitchell. Then go back a read Sara Linton's stories in the Grant County series. As in all of Karin Slaughter's book, she does a wonderful job of developing her characters. Her heroes are human -- but also complex and flawed ... they act as we expect but there are also surprises. Her victims are interesting and as people we don't quite like them. Her villiam is creepy.
    • 4/5
      Well I've had this book for quite a while now and just couldn't bring myself to read it. I'm a huge fan of Karin Slaughter and would wait anxiously every year for the next great book in the Grant County series and devour it quickly. But then our lovely writer Ms. Slaughter pulled the unexpected and did what she did. And although I completely understand why at the time I was shocked and even though I bought the new books when they came out I just didn't have the desire to read them. But as time heals all wounds I decided to jump back in and I'm glad that I did. This is by far one of her most violent and grisly books to date but I liked it and I liked where it seems she is taking the characters. The three main characters parts are well done and I agree with some of the other reviews the remaining characters are kinda one sided and not much to them. It reads very quick not my favorite in her lineup but I'm glad I read it and I'm glad that these characters are where they are at this moment.
    • 5/5
      Top-notch suspense, with well-drawn characters and almost non-stop action. Although the story brings together characters from two separate series by the author, this can easily be picked up by someone unfamiliar with the previous books.
    • 4/5
      This was great, but it's the second of three books in the series to hinge the mystery on an unreliable third person perspective. Unreliable narrators are a pet peeve of mine because they're easy to spot and that destroys the mystery. Oh well. Still good.
    • 4/5
      With this thriller, Karin Slaughter begins a new series which she calls the Georgia series. Sara Linton (the Grant County series) has left Grant County and is working as a doctor in the trauma center of a large public hospital in Atlanta. Will Trent and Faith Mitchell (the Will Trent/Atlanta series) are still partners in the Atlanta GBI office. A woman who has been horribly tortured and mutilated brings the three together to find the torturer. Soon another victim is discovered (this one dead), and two more women go missing.Karin Slaughter's books offer the best of the two worlds of police procedural mysteries and forensic medicine mysteries. As the days go on and no break in the case appears, the characters' frustrations and fears build toward a scary and unpredictable climax.The three main characters are complex and interesting. I've loved Sara Linton from her first appearance so many books ago. Her present life, a reaction to the events in the previous Grant County novel, seems empty and sad, so she jumps at the chance to help the GBI with this case, hoping to recapture some excitement in her life.Will Trent has an unstable wife who moves in and out of his life on her whims. He has dyslexia, so he depends heavily on his partner Faith Mitchell, who has her own issues that may affect her career. The minor characters are drawn carefully also. An older couple introduced early on are creepy enough for three books. I particularly like Amanda, Will's and Faith's boss, who is so tough that she's funny.The action is intense, the mystery is intriguing, and the descriptions are graphic. The issues presented are extremely unsettling. There is rarely a sense of unadulterated redemption at the end of a Karin Slaughter novel, and this one is no different.I'm a huge Karin Slaughter fan, and have been waiting for this book to see the result of certain issues from former books as much as to enjoy the mystery. This one did not disappoint. I hope Karin Slaughter continues the story of these three very sympathetic characters working together on cases.
    • 4/5
      GBI Special Agents Will Trent and Faith Mitchell finally meet up with Dr Sara Linton, combining the two series together for the first time. And what the perp is doing this time is utterly gruesome. It may be difficult for some to read about what the victims have been through. The story starts when an elderly couple hit a woman who suddenly appears before their car on a dark road. She’s naked and she’d been tortured – and she’s not the only victim they end up scrambling to find. The author shakes things up by giving us victims that we don’t necessarily like, Faith is facing some medical changes in her life and Will is, as always, putting himself down as not being good enough due to his dyslexia. It doesn’t help that Faith is helping him too much on that end. But now that he’s met Sara, perhaps he’ll stop being so hard on himself. We do finally see him lose control.It takes the team awhile to find a common thread between the victims, other than physical appearance. And even though, when learning about the personality of the victims, we’re still caught up in finding them and reuniting them with their children.Other than the early gruesome aspects, I found the book to be an easy and interesting read. A number of the characters will surprise you.
    • 4/5
      This is a difficult book to review because the whole book is a “spoiler” for the rest of the series that precedes it! Therefore I will try to focus on generalities so as not to spoil your fun if you go after Karin Slaughter’s backlist. (This book can, however, be read as a single, standalone thriller.)Karin Slaughter has a website and a newsletter, both of which show her to be a funny, fun-loving, nice young lady. So whither these gory scenes of torture and sadism that inhabit her books? I am hoping these scenes aren’t realistic, but I have a feeling I’m wrong.This latest book is part of a series with familiar characters we have come to love in spite of many flaws. It takes place three and one half years after the events in Slaughter’s previous book. Will Trent and Faith Mitchell are detectives with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Will has an on-again, off-again wife, Angie Polaski, whom he has known since his harrowing childhood in an abusive foster care facility. He has deep emotional and physical scars from his experience there as well as severe dyslexia. Faith, age 33, has some medical issues as well as a troubling past of her own, and goes to Grady Hospital, where she has an opportunity to meet Dr. Sara Linton, age 39, also a recurring character.Sara, for reasons revealed early in this book, has become “undone.” She has had trouble pulling herself back together. When the latest serial killer/torture case comes in, Sara becomes engaged in it, and this involvement seems (ironically) to pull her back to some semblance of normalcy.The man who is torturing women in this story has selected victims who were all bitter and damaged, leading lives of deprivation and desperation. The killer seems to know this, but how?Evaluation: I love Karin Slaughter’s books. Her characterizations are the richest of almost any writer in this genre. Normally I eschew books with such graphic descriptions of torture and abuse. But her protagonists are so real, with such complex bundles of real weaknesses and struggles and strengths they don’t even know they have, that I feel her stories are worth it. Plenty of suspense and twists and turns help keep you hanging in for the ride.
    • 4/5
      This book has just about everything I expect from a crime thriller. I couldn't put it down and was deeply engrossed in the characters throughout. I have read all Karin Slaughter's novels and they just keep getting better. You don't get the feeling that the author is just "churning out" novels to meet audience and publisher demands....as is the case of some in this genre.
    • 4/5
      I am still trying to figure out why the publishers keep changing books names.... In this case the same book got published as "Undone" in USA and "Genesis" everywhere else. Both names kinda work but "Genesis" is the one that suits better in some ways. Getting both her series together, Karin Slaughter had moved Sara Linton in Atlanta, where she is trying to survive after the disaster that happened in Grant County. The story is dark and ugly so if you do not like seeing what people can do to other people, just find another book. But in the same book the author managed to add friendship, love and enough feelings to make you believe in good. The first 2/3rd of the book are really good - fast-paced, logical and highly readable. The last 1/3rd is weird - in places it feels rushed, in places it just feels like someone either forgot to write a piece or an editor deleted a piece of an earlier part of the book so the whole thing just comes unexpectedly. But even like this, it's an interesting book. It probably helps if you had read the previous books but all the needed back story is in the book, in the proper places to make sense so it is not mandatory. Which makes the book even better - before it I had read only one book (from the Grant County series) so I was worried a bit before this one. Turned out not to be a problem. However - if you are planning on reading all the Grant County books and you do not like spoilers, do not read this one first. It's a crime story - women get killed, women get abducted, the GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) is there. But under the surface it is a story for the bad and good in people, for the choices someone makes, for the bad things that can happen and for the lives of people which seem to have lost almost everything. I am not sure which part was better - the actual story that was running or the background with all the strange relationships and fears. The characters are interesting - Will and Faith make such a partnership that made me smile even in this ugly story; Amanda is just hilarious in most places and effective in the rest; Sara is ... interesting (and I will probably be tracing down more books about her - she seems like a ghost in the better part of the book and the for the rest, she seems to try to make a full appearance). And then there is Angie. I kinda understand the back story and all but I still do not understand her at all. And while Will at least makes a strange but likable character, Angie is just... weird (and I will probably pick up the first two books from the Atlanta series also - hopefully they will give me some idea why everything happens in the way it does with her...)I will be interested to see where this story goes after this. 3 and a half stars out of 5 for this one and I definitely found a new author to keep an eye on.
    • 4/5
      *****SPOILER ALERT****** This novel was a bit difficult for me to begin due to the changes at the end of Beyond Reach, but once I began reading it, I found it intriguing how Karin intertwined the characters from the Grant series and the Atlanta series. Definitely worth continuing.
    • 5/5
      Catching up with Sara Linton and introducing her to Will and Faith has restored my optimism in the Grant County series. I'll continue to read anyone that can fiddle with my heart strings like Karin does.
    • 4/5
      This is the 3rd Karin Slaughter book I have read, so I had a bit of background on the characters. Although a few parts were hard to follow, the overall story line was excellent. All the main characters are dealing with major life changing situations, some past, some present, which gives them all a 'real' feel to them. This book kept me riveted through out. I will be definitely reading more of Karin's books, so I can get caught up with everyones' life. Thanx for choosing me as an Early Reviewer through LibraryThing. :)
    • 5/5
      So enjoyable. Forgot about these characters, all of whom are interesting.Weirdo kidnaps and tortures women (sos). The women are all anorexic bitches. Great cops, doctors, etc. All interesting characters.
    • 4/5
      This book introduced me to the author, Karin Slaughter, and it was quite the introduction! From the opening pages, this book was absolutely riveting. I have not read any of the prior books leading into this series, but that was not a deterrent. Now it will be a personal challenge to read the other works that this author has to offer!This story begins with a horrifying series of crimes committed against women and what unfolds is quite the hunt for the perpetrator. It was peppered with some true crime references (which as a true crime buff, I appreciated) and explored the competing agencies in a high profile crime. The story demonstrated how those different police agencies interact with one another and how those relationships may even hinder parts of an investigation . It delved into the victims' personalities and how they were not always sympathetic, which added an interesting layer to the plot. I really enjoyed this book and would heartily recommend it-- although with the caveat that it can be quite graphic and the visuals it conjures up may not leave you for quite some time!
    • 3/5
      A fast-paced thriller with more character development than one might expect from the genre, Undone unfortunately suffered from too much gratuitous violence and a few holes in the plot large enough to drive a truck through. And while the three primary characters had some depth, the rest were little more than one dimensional stereotypes. I’m glad the book read so quickly, and I’m glad to move on to something else.
    • 3/5
      I have been eagerly anticipating the release of Karin Slaughter’s new novel. Although I love the Grant County series, I felt the characters had done all they could do in the arena they were placed. And the introduction of Will Trent, Faith Mitchell, and the assorted supporting characters of their stories shows that Slaughter still has fresh vision. The combination of the two made me excited to take a peek into their lives.Undone holds what I’ve come to expect from Slaughter, truly evil bad guys, and sharp but flawed good guys, supporting characters who are well drawn, but who don’t overpower the protagonists, and tense situations where I think the suspense is going to kill me! Will Trent is one of the most fascinating cops I’ve come across in recent reading, and his struggles ring true to me.It’s clear that the story will continue, and when it does, I hope Sara Linton works through her grief and maintains a more prominent place in their stories.
    • 4/5
      This author was suggested to me by an aquaintance. The book was quite good. Probably not the best written in thw world but I liked the side issues introduced in it. eg Wills dyslexia, Faith's pregnancy.I will read more of her books. She doesn't seem to concentrate so much on the crime committed as some authors, which I enjoyed for a change.
    • 5/5
      An elderly couple drives on the high way, when they see a deer running across the road. They hit it, and they stop to check if the deer is okay. It appears that it isn't a deer, but a women. She has a lot of bruises and the ambulance comes to get her. In the hospital, they find out her 11th rib is missing. Near the place the woman was hit, they find a hole underground. There's a bed at it's clear that a person was held there. What happened? Who was held there and are there more victims?I thought it was a really good book. A thriller that ''makes my toes curl'' as we say it in Holland. It was creepy, and I didn't find out who did it until 3/4th of the book. It was great, 4.5 stars!
    • 5/5
      This is the first book I've read by Karin Slaughter, and I really enjoyed it. It is taut, suspenseful, and well-thought-out... there is more than one connection between the victims, which shows both ingenuity on the author's part as well as respect for the intelligence of her readers.I really appreciate her characters. They are all flawed, which makes them that much more human... they really are multidimensional. She gives the good and the bad, the known and unknown, the confidence and the questions. Most of all, I like what she's created for Will Trent: a compassionate, insecure, earnest male character. There are only so many stoic male cops with a drinking problem to go around - he is something new.I look forward to reading the rest of the series!(Advance Readers' edition, received from Goodreads 7/6/09)
    • 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!
    • 5/5
      Slaughter has written an engaging and enticing mystery that keeps you interested for long after you turn the last page. This is the first of her books I've read, but it definitely won't be the last! The large cast of characters might be hard to keep straight with some authors, but each one has a fully developed character that makes you really care about them. I enjoyed this book so much! Would definitely recommend!
    • 5/5
      Very good read will definitely read it again plot was interesting