“Breathless tension!” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of [the year’s] most remarkable achievements,” crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled visitors and critics alike with Triptych, her New York Situations bestselling suspense book occur metropolitan Atlanta. Right now the #1 internationally bestselling author returns towards the damaged landscape she knows so well inside a bold fresh novel-at once a natural powder keg of suspense, a gritty family portrait of a cop’s lifestyle, and a searing exploration of a about Fractured: A Book shocking crime and its aftermath…

With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is among Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. However in one gleaming mansion, within a teenager’s luxurious bedroom, a woman has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having wiped out her daughter’s attacker with her uncovered hands.

Detective Can Trent from the Georgia Bureau of Analysis is here simply to do a political favor; the murder site is one of the Atlanta law enforcement. But Trent soon sees something that the cops are lacking, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes from the shell-shocked mother. Within minutes, Trent is definitely taking over the case-and adding a different one to it. He’s sure another teenage woman is lacking, and that a killer is normally in the loose.

Armed with just fleeting hints, teamed with a lady cop that has her own personal known reasons for hating him, Trent has enemies throughout him-and a gnawing feeling that this court case, which started in the best of homes, is definitely reducing quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human being demons emerge using a vengeance.