![]() Agent: Victoria Sanders, Victoria Sanders & Associates. Slaughter seamlessly shifts between past and present, while her usual attentive eye for character and carefully metered violence is on full display. ![]() The APD at that time is rife with racism and sexism, but Amanda and Evelyn refuse to abandon the case of several missing prostitutes, despite warnings from other (male) detectives to back off. Flashback to 1975, when Amanda is a rookie in the Atlanta Police Department, along with Evelyn Mitchell, who later becomes the mother of Faith, Will’s GBI partner. When his GBI mentor and boss, Deputy Director Amanda Wagner, specifically tells him to stay away from the case, Will knows something is wrong. Sara Linton, until the abduction of 19-year-old college student Ashleigh Snyder. Nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller (2012) Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. ![]() At the outset of Slaughter’s tense fourth thriller to combine characters from her two crime series (after 2011’s Fallen), life is running smoothly for agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as he eases into a new relationship with Dr. ![]()
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