After that Night by Karin Slaughter

 

Title:  After that Night (Will Trent Series #11)

Author:  Karin Slaughter

Narrated by:  Kathleen Early

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Length: Approximately 16 hours and 34 minutes

Source: Review Copy from NetGalley.

Do you have a favorite genre that you like to read in the fall?  I really love to read thrillers and mysteries in the fall.  After that Night by Karin Slaughter was a riveting thriller that kept me on pins and needles throughout the entire story.

Doctor Sara Linton made a promise to a dying girl, Dani, that she would find who had raped and brutalized her.  Years later as Sara testifies at a trial to convict Dan’s rapist, she discovers that this case may be linked to her own brutal rape fifteen years before.  With help from her fiancé, Will Trent, and his partner, Faith, they investigate Sara’s rape as well as Dani’s to figure out if they can find the perpetrators.  Will they solve this crime before they strike again?

This book kept me on the edge of my seat as Sara, Will, and Faith investigated the crime and put the pieces together.  Even after you think you know what’s going on, there is still a slight twist at the very end.  The crimes were horrifying and made me want to lock my daughter up to keep her safe. It’s sad to know that there are people like that out in the world that only think about themselves and their gratification and not about the people whose lives they’ve destroyed.

What I loved even more than the suspense were the characters and their relationships.  I loved Sara and Will’s love story and finding out more about them.  They are on the verge of being married so they have that on their minds as well.  Faith is a great partner, worried mother, and Sara’s best friend.  Faith wants what is best for her son who is soon graduating from college, but is what she wants, what he wants?  I have only read the last few Will Trent books and I really need to go back to the beginning of this series and read from the beginning.  I do feel you can read them as standalone as they give background on the characters.   I have not watched the show yet, have you? 

Kathleen Early was a great narrator.  This was yet again another audiobook that made me want to keep driving just so I could keep listening to the story.  It was a perfect book for the end of October and beginning of November.