Undone
by Karin Slaughter
Dell Mass Market Edition 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0440244455
If you enjoy the solution of gruesome murders of beautiful young women, which grabs your attention quickly and keeps you on the edge of your seat until denouement arrives like a freight train, you will love Undone.
In Atlanta, an elderly couple hit a woman staggering across a highway at night. She is deaf, blind, and abused, before she was whacked on the road. Her infant was left behind. When the State Detectives arrive well ahead of the local constabulary, they discover that the woman had just escaped from a rough cave where she was tortured with another woman, later found to be in even worse condition. The detectives are an interesting woman and man, each with their own infirmatives.
When the victim arrives at the infamous Grady Hospital, she is attended by a skilled doctor whose police officer husband has been killed in the line of duty. The doctor carries around a letter from the woman responsible for the death. Before his death, she had been a coroner with an instinct for solving crimes. Subconsciously, she is ready to move on with her life after years of solitude since the love of her life was taken away.
The skill of the killer leaves no clues. There are other kidnappings, certain to produce more torture. Pressure from all sides is heaped on our protagonists, the detectives and doctor. Their lives evolve as the drama itself begins to unfold, revealing the depths of dysfunction and depravity that can exist in even apparently normal families. The abuse is sad enough in the family, but when it seeps outward the curse spreads to innocent bystanders. It is even worse when the murderous rampage is clothed in religious fanaticism to cleanse the victims. A collage of lives are undone in these clever pages, some for better and some for worse.
It is apparent why Karin Slaughter has become a best-seller.
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