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This is the first in Karin Slaughter's Will Trent series and the first book I've read of hers. We are introduced to Will Trent, a Special Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, called in to help local police with difficult crimes. Will is a loner and a damaged man, having been abused as a child, his 6'4" body covered in scars. He met his best friend and sometime lover Angie in a State orphanage and she is the only person he lets get close to him. Angie is tough as nails, currently an undercover policewoman in Vice dressing as a prostitute to arrest men soliciting on the streets.

Will arrives in Atlanta following the brutal death of a woman who is left mutilated and choking to death on her own blood. The mutilation of her body is similar to that of two young girls attacked elsewhere and Will believes a serial rapist is at large and may have escalated to murder. At around the time of the first attack, John Shelley was released from prison after 23y for rape and murder of a 15y old girl. John just wants to put his time in prison behind him and get on with rebuilding his life but someone has other plans for him.

This was quite a graphic and gripping novel with plenty of nail biting action as Will hunts down the rapist and killer. I look forward to reading more in this series.