Karin Slaughter | BROKEN

Plot (via Goodreads):

When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. He doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case.
While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she's already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton's passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver's death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets--and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.

Review:

I absolutely loved the case in BROKEN. The return of some of the Grant Co. residents was like a mini-reunion I didn’t know I needed and the combination between the tension, the suspense, and the character growth was jaw-dropping and stunning in its prose. As always, with a Karin Slaughter read, you really have no idea where a case is going and the curve balls thrown at you as you run along the GBI and these characters really make the 400+ page stories really fly by. My highlights of this one would be the tension between Sara and Lena as well as the return of the Linton family, who I missed so much. The ending to this one was spot on and brutally terrifying - making you crave the next in the series the minute you put down this one.

Rating: 5/5