Fractured

I very much enjoyed Fractured by Karin Slaughter. A wealthy mother returns home to find an horrific scene and a young man with a knife standing over a body. She fears for her own life and takes steps to save herself. The detective, Will Trent, arrives and reads the scene differently and realises that the woman's daughter has been kidnapped. Then follows an intriguing and suspenseful investigation into what really happened at the house and the search for the missing daughter. Trent is a great character - intense, somewhat introverted, inciteful, good at puzzling things out. He also has a secret that he is afraid of having exposed and that looks like happening the more he interacts with his new female work partner, Faith Mitchell. The reader is taken on a suspenseful ride as Trent and Mitchell try to solve the case. 41/2/5