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Triptych
Author: Karin Slaughter
ISBN: 0440242924
Publisher: Dell - 2007-07-31
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Magnificent

An amazing and magnificent book. Dark -- very dark -- and clever. I don't want to give away the plot -- no spoilers! But it's very, very well done. Unlike so many authors (and as one myself, I know how very hard it is to do well), she shows evil convincingly and well. And what a searing indictment of America's prison system!

As good a novel as it is a thriller. Damn! I wish I'd written it.

A mind bender

I have never read another book by Karen Slaughter, so I did not know what to expect and am not sure if this is like her other novels.

That said, I thought this was a really good crime mystery novel. It is one of the only times I can remember a plot twist being so shocking that I actually said "Oh my gosh" out loud. And there is more than one of these moments in the book.

It is also very interesting to see how Slaughter has different characters in different parts of the book describe the same events or people in quite disparate ways. A very nice example of how the story changes depending on who is telling it.

Of course, there are all the things one expects to find in any crime novel: blood, bizarre markers, and a serial killer.

If you are looking for a good, relatively quick crime mystery novel to read that will keep surprising you, you could do much worse that Triptych.

A serial killer thriller from bestseller Karin Slaugther

Tryptych is the strangly named title of Karin Slaughter's riveting thriller. This is the first book I've read by the author and won't be the last. There are several authors who I've read and won't read again. I'm glad I've found another author than can deliver a great crime thriller. As the plot summary notes, the story revolves around three characters. I don't know if these characters appear in other Slaughter novels, but Triptych can be read without reading her other books.

Det. Michael Ormewood has a struggling marriage and a mentally challenged son. He is frustrated when Will Trent, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation Officer, is brought in to help with an investigation. A old prostitute has been murdered, and details of the murder match other similar crimes committed in Atlanta. Angie Polaski is a vice cop and has a lifelong relationship with Will Trent and a love/hate relationship with Ormewood. The third person in the character triangle is John Shelley. John was raised in a perfect home but he turned to drugs and soon found himself being charged with murder. He was convicted and released on parole. While out of jail and trying to buy a TV on credit, the salesman says he has great credit. It seems that while in jail, someone has been using John's name to live a second life.

There is no point in going into more detail except to say that there are three storylines, Ormewood and the murders, Angie Polaksi and Will Trent, and John Shelley. Author Slaughter gives clues but writes deftly enough to hide the complex relationships between the charcters until all three story lines mesh into one incredible set of events.

These events set in motion an invetible climax that takes way too long in coming. Halfway through the novel, I suddenly grasped what Slaughter set out to do and was amazed at her writing skills. Unfortunately, the book was only half over, and the last half of the book, the reader knows so much more than the other characters that it becomes frustrating to watch the characters not be able to figure out. Still, I enjoyed the novel.

This is a gritty, at times vulgar book, that is shockingly fun. Slaughter's characters all have demons and issues. Prostitution, drug use and murder are all there. Slaughter has hooked me in. She writes a different book that someone like Gerritson or Cornwell or Reichs, yet fans of those authors should love books by Karin Slaughter.

Compelling, but...

Compelling story, but a very slow start with an obvious political slant that added nothing to the tale. This is the 1st Slaughter mystery I have read - I will try another, but the intrigue has to take the lead and not the personal agenda of the author (especially when the asides do nothing to assist in character development or plot).

three and a half stars, really.

When Slaughter's first book (Blindsighted) was released, I was actually pretty impressed. Although it was pretty heavy on the violence, it was also pretty heavy on the characters. The plotting was tight and affecting. There was good local color. In short, even though it had many elements that might not have thrilled me, it also had a lot of things that I really liked. I had the feeling that Slaughter had the potential to bring her genre out of the supermarket and airport into somewhere pretty interesting.

Unfortunately, ever since then, I've kind of been waiting for the interesting to happen. Instead of using the ultra-violence as a seasoning, I have the feeling that she has started to depend on it.

(Note: I have the feeling that sometimes I talk about violence like a precious old lady peering over her reading glasses. I really do not object to violence when it is part of the plot, and makes sense in the atmosphere and genre. I do dislike what in last years feels to me an attempt to create the most vicious vile and degrading serial killer around. It is too much, and feels like a violence arms race. It clouds how violent even small acts of violence can be.)

Anyhow, in this sense, Triptych is an improvement over the Grant County books. Violent, yes, but within a rational scale. Unfortunately, in this novel it is the plot tricks which push the book over the top for me. I won't go into the twists and turns, since it could spoil the reading experience. But suffice it to say that the book falls largely flat if you figure out the main gimmick early on, which I did. A high risk strategy, I fear. At least for me, it didn't pay off.

In short, not a bad entry from Slaughter. But it still fails to live up to my initially high expectations of her work.

(I do like Will Trent as a character, by the way. I wouldn't mind seeing more of him in the future.)

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Editorial Reviews:

In the city of Atlanta, women are dyingâat the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a threadâand whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michaelâs lover before she became his enemy.

But another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killerâs trail in the most coincidental of waysâsomeone who may be the key to breaking the case wide openâ¦.

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