Cop Town

Cop TownBy: Karin Slaughter NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as one of the best crime novelists in America (The Washington Post). Now she delivers her first stand alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a serial killer targeting cops, and a divided police force tasked with bringing a madman to justice. Atlanta, 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious

or the warrior code itself

a fascination with odd and ordinary detail

as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves

Written in language that is folksy yet eloquent

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” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story

he digs and digs until he is face to face

and important general knowledge topics such as measurements

reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable

She's got to find an antidote--before her entire high school ends up eating each other

She's tired of being sexually harassed

The third woman is his wife