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We Are All Guilty Here: North Falls #1    by Karin Slaughter Amazon.com order for
We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter
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William Morrow, 2025 (2025)
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* * *   Reviewed by Hilary Williamson

I've long enjoyed Karin Slaughter's series and characters, especially medical examiner Dr. Sara Linton and Special Agent Will Trent. She opens a new North Falls thriller series with We Are All Guilty Here, starring Officer Emmy Clifton. North Falls is a small town, 'where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.'

The night of a fireworks show, teens Cheyenne and Madison go missing, believed to be kidnapped. Madison is the daughter of Emmy's best friend Hannah, and they both considered Cheyenne a bad influence. That's confirmed for Emmy when she finds a large sum of cash and drugs in Cheyenne's home.

What follows is a tense police procedural, with Emmy determined to find answers. They find bodies, and Adam Huntsinger goes to jail for the crime. Twelve years later, he's released. Soon afterwards another teen girl goes missing and a mob attack on Huntsinger ends in tragedy.

Then FBI Special Agent Jude Archer (officially retired) shows up. She's a criminal psychologist with a close connection to the Cliftons. She and Emmy together make an unstoppable force - and they find answers to both the cold case and the current one. I look forward to more in this engrossing series!

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