We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Wow. What an emotional rollercoaster.

When I saw that Slaughter had a new series starting AND that it was available to request on NetGalley, I may have squealed. Literally. While I’ve not loved all of the books by her that I’ve read, I’ve enjoyed at least parts of them all. I’m currently in the middle of the Will Trent series and Criminal nearly broke me. While that might be my favorite so far of the series, We Are All Guilty Here may be my most favorite of all.

Let’s get the blurb out of the way:

Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.

Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites.

For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend’s daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home.

But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did.

Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?

We’ve got the gruesome crimes, the reprehensible characters, the difficult family situations, and, sort of, idealistic police officers. But for me, it was the raw emotion in the pages that won me over. I don’t often cry while reading police procedurals, but my face leaked several times. I had to put my ereader aside for a few minutes more than once so I could regroup. I also read nearly all day and stayed up until 2am to finish. Luckily, my wife is out of town this weekend and only the cats and dog were annoyed with me.

Some may find some of the twists and turns to be too much to suspend disbelief over, but I think Slaughter put enough work in to lay the foundations – especially with the family dynamics – to make it work. Or maybe I was just so into the story and characters my brain was okay with it all. Either way, no one has the same reading experience. I loved the whole damn book.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for giving me the ebook and getting me hooked on a new Slaughter series.



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