Fractured is the second novel in the Atlanta series from bestselling author Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter

-Personal Life:Karin Slaughter is an American crime writer, whose first novel Blindsighted became an international success, was published in almost 30 languages, and made the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001.Fractured, the second novel in the...

. The first book is Triptych. This book was published in 2008. These books star Will Trent

Will Trent

Will Trent is the fictional main protagonist in author Karin Slaughter's Georgia Bureau of Investigation Atlanta series. Other major characters are Angie Polaski and Faith Mitchell. Current books in the series have the US titles of Triptych, Fractured, and Undone. Slaughter also writes the Grant...

, a dyslexic Georgia Bureau of Investigation

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation or GBI is an independent, U.S. state of Georgia agency that provides assistance to the state's criminal justice system in the areas of criminal investigations, forensic laboratory services and computerized criminal justice information.-Organization:The agency is...

 agent. The books also feature Angie Polaski and Faith Mitchell. Slaughter also writes the Grant County

Grant County, Georgia

Grant County, Georgia, is a fictional place used for the settings of Karin Slaughter's novels. The main characters in these novels are Sara Linton, Jeffrey Tolliver, and Lena Adams. The Grant County books are Blindsighted, Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, Indelible, Faithless, and Beyond Reach....

 series.

Plot summary

Six months ago, Atlanta homicide detective Faith Mitchell's police captain mother was the focus of an investigation that resulted in her retirement and the firing of six narcotics officers. It was a righteous bust, but the cops want to protect their own, and Faith, along with the entire Atlanta police force, simmers with rage at the man responsible, GBI agent Will Trent. Now Faith and Will are thrown together on a shocking murder/kidnapping case involving some of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the city, and neither one of them is happy about the pairing. But Faith gradually discovers that not only is Will not the verminous heel she expected him to be, he is a sleuth par excellence, and Will must deal with a bully from his past who is now a victim and whose irrational hostility threatens the investigation. As the case begins to center on dyslexia

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

, Will waits nervously to see if anyone will notice his own, and he and Faith race frantically from the dormitories of Georgia Tech to the halls of one of Atlanta's exclusive private academies to keep another corpse from surfacing.

External links

• Karin Slaughter page about Fractured
  
• Random House, read an excerpt
  
• Good Reads
  
• Library Thing
  
• Book Reporter
  
• Amazon