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    Snatched: A Novella

    By Karin Slaughter

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    A gripping, action-packed short story available only as an eBook—from a master of character, crime, and urgent suspense.
     
    Will Trent, a dedicated agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for fifteen years, knows that there’s definitely such a thing as a cop’s intuition. Which is why he should have listened to his own.
     
    While in an airport restroom at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, Will overhears a girl’s pleading, plaintive voice: “Please, I wanna go home.” Something isn’t right here, thinks Will. He feels it in his gut. But he waits too long to act, and now the girl and the anxious, angry man she’s with have disappeared into the crowds at the busiest passenger airport in the world.
     
    After a desperate search and with time running out, Will makes a call to his supervisor, Amanda Wagner. Will’s partner, Faith Mitchell, immediately sends out an abducted child alert. The entire airport will soon be grinding to a halt: Almost 100 million passengers a year. Five runways. Seven concourses. Six million square feet of space that sprawled across two counties, three cities, and five jurisdictions. All shut down on a dime because Will has a hunch that he is certain is true: a girl, maybe six or seven years old, has been snatched from God knows where. And he intends to bring her back—no matter what it takes.
     
    Includes an exclusive excerpt from Karin Slaughter’s thrilling new novel of suspense, Criminal.
     
    PRAISE FOR THE CRIME FICTION OF KARIN SLAUGHTER
     
    “Karin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America.”—The Washington Post
     
    “Crime fiction at its finest.”—Michael Connelly
     
    “An absolute master.”—Chicago Tribune
     
    “Slaughter writes with a razor. . . . Better than Cornwell can ever hope to be.”—The Plain Dealer
     
    “Slaughter will have you on the edge of your seat.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
     
    “One of the boldest thriller writers working today.”—Tess Gerritsen
     
    “Move over, Catherine Coulter—Slaughter may be today’s top female suspense writer.”—Library Journal (starred review)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 14, 2012
    ISBN9780345538161
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    Snatched: A Novella
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    Karin Slaughter

    Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. She is the author of more than twenty instant New York Times bestselling novels, including the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and standalone novels The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls. An international bestseller, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is a #1 Netflix original series, Will Trent is a television series starring Ramón Rodríguez on ABC, and further projects are in development for television. Karin Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

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    • 5/5
      Karin Slaughter is one of my all time favorite authors. I stumbled across this only because my mom has let me borrow her nook for a while and I was taking a look at what was available from the library. I was so excited this morning that I checked it out and read it before I even got out of bed!Will Trent has been placed on the worst detail and agent can get...staking out the bathrooms to catch men in sex crimes. He's bored sitting in a stall in the Atlanta airport when he hears a little girl crying and asking to go home. The man with her is sharp and Will's intuition tells him the man is not her dad. He follows them as he calls for the airport to shut down to catch them. After losing the pair in a split second when he looks for traffic just outside the airport, he spots the man and tackles him. But where's the girl?This is pure Karin Slaughter in a bite sized story. Loved it!
    • 5/5
      Karin Slaughter is one of my favourite crime authors. I've read every last title she's written. Slaughter moves her characters along in real time, so start with The Grant County books and then the Will Trent series. You can read them as stand alones, but you'd be robbing yourself of a fantastic series. The last book, Criminal (my review) finally answered some long held questions about Will's background. I cannot wait to see where the next book - Unseen - takes us. (It's next up on my nightstand)Snatched was a great little listen before I started in on Unseen. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Trent has been posted to airport duty - the washrooms specifically. While hiding out in a stall in the men's, he hears a little girl in the next stall say 'I want to go home.' Is the man with her her father? Nothing untoward was said or done, but Will's radar is tingling. He decides to follow the pair, but loses them in the large airport. But he's sure something's not right - and the airport is shut down on Will's intuition. The race is on to find the girl before she is spirited away.....or worse. Kathleen Early has read the last few of Slaughter's books and I hope they use her for future books. Her voice is clear, with short, crisp tones that mirror the lead character's way of thinking and speaking. The tone is no nonsense and easily conveys the escalating tension of the hunt for the missing girl. She provides believable voices for other characters as well. As, I said, this is a favourite series and character and the wrong narrator would ruin the image I have of these familiar players. Early hits the right note. An enjoyable listen of an excellent story!
    • 4/5
      A good, fast paced book, with an interesting plot and good characters.
    • 3/5
      My first reading a Karin Slaughter novella. This was a refreshing take on an action story - no fat, fast moving. Pretty good character development vs plot. Will read more of hers in future.
    • 4/5
      Karin Slaughter’s SNATCHED, (Will Trent Series #5.5) an e-book short story-a prequel to CRIMINAL is action packed, full of suspense beginning at Atlanta’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson, leading to child abduction, of all places in the restroom.

      Will Trent (GBI) finds himself stuck policing the Atlanta airport restroom for crimes (as punishment), on the outlook for illicit sexual activities when he witnesses an attempted child abduction. Not knowing for sure if this is a parent or grandparent, he sets up security to catch the man; however he escapes and nothing will stop him from saving this innocent little girl.

      Having lived in Atlanta most of my career, only twenty minutes from the airport, I have flown out of this airport, as many as 15 days a month with my job. (even found myself on a plane in Atlanta on 9/11 headed to Houston when we deplaned due to the bombing and airport was closed)—well aware what it is like to shut down this airport.

      I enjoy Karin’s crime writing of Hot Atlanta as she gets down and dirty, to the root of the crime in this corrupt city! Will Trent is one of my favorite characters, and kind of sad, as now have read all the books in the series as started from the latest and been reading all the ones I missed. This is the last one, so hopefully 2015 will bring another installment, as want Will to find happiness and get rid of Angie!

      I listened to the audiobook and Kathleen Early performance was awesome as usual! Can't wait for the next Will Trent saga!