My usual Karin Slaughter spiel (check out my earlier reviews for this series if you want more in depth thoughts): the main characters are irritating, her writing is great, the stories are fantastic, I'm engrossed from page one and usually finish these books in about a day. Highly recommend if you like cop thrillers. They're the best I've read.

Two critiques for this one. First, and I think this has been a problem through all of her books but was most apparent here, it feels like there are some factual inconsistencies from book to book. I'm noticing them because of how quickly I'm reading through this series, but they're not usually anything important. I also can't really bring up many examples because they're small things that I'm too lazy to check, but in this book I noticed them more. There are certain facts about Will Trent's past that don't line up (some aren't meant to for reasons explained in the story, but there are other details). Not an example from this book, but once a character said they hadn't consumed alcohol in over a year when they'd had alcohol during the previous book that happened less than a year ago. I only include that because it's the one thing I'm actually one hundred percent certain on. But there were a few dozen more details throughout the books that I was pretty sure were inconsistent. Not enough that it lessened my experience much, but it did bug me.

The second point was her historical fiction scenes. I read Cop Town a while back and gave it three stars, didn't particularly enjoy it, and the historical fiction scenes in this book read exactly like Cop Town. They were set at the same time in the same place and dealt with largely the same issues. It felt like the two were interchangeable. And I just think I don't enjoy historical fiction cop thrillers, at least not the way Slaughter writes them. I was always itching to get back to the present.

But I still really enjoyed this book and it was nice to learn more about Will Trent's history.