The Secrets We Hide
A North Falls Thriller
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4.5 • 383 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
An instant New York Times bestseller!
The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Daughter and the Will Trent Series.
Welcome to North Falls. A small town with big secrets…
1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors.
When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead.
Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town.
And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth…
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
An apparently open-and-shut murder case unlocks a tight-knit community’s hidden sins in this masterful thriller. After newly appointed sheriff Emmy Clifton finds her former colleague Allison Vickery shot dead and Allison’s teenage daughter critically wounded, the small town of North Falls expects a simple domestic case. But with the clues just a little too neat, Emmy—along with her ex-FBI sister—delves into the community’s troubled past, uncovering secrets that threaten them all. Thriller queen Karin Slaughter intimately understands the push and pull of family and criminal investigations. In her expert hands, the emotionally vulnerable Emmy wrestles with her own complicated feelings as she painstakingly unravels the puzzling circumstances leading to Allison’s death, dismantling false leads and local gossip along the way. Even as Emmy’s meticulous detective work is complicated by family pressures, Slaughter takes us ever deeper into this dangerous case and left us gasping at its final stirring twists.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Slaughter's satisfying sequel to We Are All Guilty Here sees North Falls, Ga., sheriff Emmy Clifton investigate a complex murder case with the help of her estranged sister. Emmy is leaving her mother's burial with her sister, Jude, and son, Cole, when she hears gunshots. The trio follow the sound to the home of Allison Vickery, a retired North Falls detective turned PI, whom they find dead beside her barely breathing teenage daughter. The perp gets away, and Emmy ends up investigating the case with help from her officers and from Jude, a feisty retired FBI agent who left North Falls 40 years earlier. During Emmy's inquiry, she discovers $300,000 squirreled away in Allison's attic and learns she was trying to escape her abusive marriage to Bill Garrison, scion of one of the most respected families in North Falls. Bill swears he's innocent, though his alibi is shaky. The evidence also points to other suspects including Allison's violent ex, her former DEA colleagues, and a local drug lord. The combustible chemistry between Emmy and Jude lends this the friction its predecessor lacked, and Slaughter remains as skilled as ever at probing the darker side of life in Georgia. This bodes well for the future of the series.
Customer Reviews
Excellent
More twists and turns to keep you busy ponder g who did what to whom. A great read.
Boring
Overwrought. Hard to believe.