read (beautifully) by Kathleen Early
2012, AudioGo
13 unabridged cds (15:35)
$29.95/ TPPL
448 pages
Goodreads rating: 4.22
My rating: 5
Setting: 1975 AND contemporary Atlanta, Ga
First impressions: I listened to the audio version, which was read beautifully. The plot switches between two periods, current day and the summer of 1975, same characters...more or less. Really nicely crafted, delving not only into a series of murders of prostitutes in Atlanta, but the minds and thinking and attitudes between the perbitrator/s and the investigators. The segregation/discrimination between females and blacks in the Atlanta police department in the mid-1970's is also an eyeopener! Couldn't put it down.
Will Trent is beginning to discover some of the truth about his past, the past that has been kept hidden from him. Will's a nice guy despite lots of baggage. He's smart and has made the best in a world that gave him a pretty lousy start. He was raised in an orphanage in the poorest part of Atlanta, went into the police force, and now works for the George Bureau of Investigation. This is his backstory, a story he learns about in bits and pieces. He has a not-yet-ex wife and a new girlfriend, a female boss and a female partner, a dog and a porsche. Nice twist at the end that you only get hints at throughout the book. This is a good one!
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