Great Opening Lines | January 18, 2023
The house screamed, “Fire!” from every orifice.
After seven words, we are fully engaged, and the narrator makes sure we stay that way as the opening paragraph unfolds.
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GARDEN & GUN | JANUARY 4, 2023
Crime-writing queen and Atlanta resident Karin Slaughter sees her creation Will Trent come to life in this new series featuring the fictional Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent, played by the Puerto Rico native Ramón Rodríguez. The first episode, which has garnered generally good reviews, aired at 10:00 p.m. on ABC on Tuesday, January 3, and is also available on Hulu to stream; new episodes will air and stream on subsequent Tuesdays. Can’t wait?
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NEWSWEEK | JANAUARY 3, 2023
Karin Slaughter's bestselling crime novels Will Trent are being brought to life on the small screen, and Ramón Rodríguez relished the opportunity to dig into the "compelling, complicated" character the author created, he told Newsweek.
Rodríguez takes on the titular role of Special Agent Will Trent, who works for the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) in Atlanta and who is tasked with solving a grisly murder and missing persons case.
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PARADE | JANUARY 3, 2023
New series based on Karin Slaughter's bestselling novels joins strong ABC drama lineup.
Will Trent season 1 will lean heavily on the stories from Karin Slaughter's first Will Trent novel, Triptych.
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VARIETY | JANUARY 2, 2023
Rodríguez benefits, perhaps, from the source material; Trent, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent based in Atlanta, emerged from the mind of novelist Karin Slaughter. Here, he’s an astute but fallible sleuth, brought to the point of frustration both by his learning disability and an incident in which he seemed to have missed crucial clues.
“Will Trent” will premiere Tuesday, January 3 at 10 p.m. ET
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B&N Reads | December 28, 2022
A new year means it’s time for a new #TBR, and we couldn’t be more thrilled about the upcoming January releases! With big names returning with new stories, debut authors that we are falling head over heels for, and beloved characters giving us a constant as the years change, our most anticipated books in kids and YA for January 2023 are certainly ones you won’t want to miss!
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Mary Lee Donovan, Brizida Magro
Whether you’re a sugar pie, cutie poo or darling delight, Let Me Call You Sweetheart is everything a picture book should be. Mary Lee Donovan’s poetry and Brizida Magro’s art go together like seasalted caramel and cookies n’cream (or whatever your personal equivalent would be).
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ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION | December 28, 2022
Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent Will Trent is a figment of Atlanta author Karin Slaughter’s imagination come to life in 10 best-selling books.
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SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL | OCTOBER 21, 2022
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks
Who is the mysterious new girl at Edgewood Stables? When Victoria shows up one day to ride the horses she tells the others there that she does not need new friends. But why is she here? And what happened at her stable before?
Dragon Bones: The Fantastic Fossil Discoveries of Mary Anning by Sarah Glenn Marsh, ill. Maris Wicks
Born in 1799, no one would have expected Mary Anning to be remembered as the mother of paleontology. The story of a scientist that couldn’t stop digging up impressive, ancient sea creatures.
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LIBRARY JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Vital Lies by Daniel Pyne. Brilliance Audio. (Sentro, Bk. 2). Feb. 2022. 11:57 hrs. ISBN 9781713594390. $34.99. THRILLER
In Cold War Germany in the 1980s, teenager Aubrey Sentro is an entry-level intelligence operative for the CIA. When she discovers that an entire CIA unit’s cover is about to be blown, she sacrifices herself to give them time to escape. She is captured and handed over to former Stasi agent Günter Witt, who beats, rapes, and impregnates her. Often drugged, she is told by her captors that the baby was stillborn. Then the Berlin Wall falls, and the Cold War is over. Sentro returns home to her family but with memory loss and ongoing PTSD. Thirty years later, Witt reappears in connection with a series of bombings in Europe. Meanwhile, a woman claiming to be Aubrey’s daughter also surfaces with deadly intent. When Aubrey and her daughter are drawn into the search for answers and put in peril, Aubrey must recover the long-buried truth about her past. This is Pyne’s second book (after Water Memory) in the “Sentro” series. Narrator Christina Traister skillfully presents the many voices and accents necessary to make the story come alive.
VERDICT Listeners of spy thrillers will enjoy this book. Recommended.
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BOOK REPORTER | AUGUST 25, 2022
With GIRL, FORGOTTEN, Karin Slaughter pens a worthy follow-up to PIECES OF HER, which became a huge hit as a Netflix series. . . .
The whole story is a masterpiece of mystery, and Slaughter's skill as a writer has never shone as brightly as it has in this novel.
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WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS | August 18, 2022
May Cobb is the author of three novels, the latest of which is My Summer Darlings, which was recommended by “The Today Show,” CrimeReads, Booklist, Shelf Awareness, and many more, and follows the critical and public enthusiasm her prior novel (The Hunting Wives) received. Her essays and interviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the Rumpus, Edible Austin, and Austin Monthly.
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THE MILLIONS | AUGUST 18, 2022
Barbara Bourland’s riveting new novel, The Force of Such Beauty, opens with the breathless escape attempt of a modern-day princess named Caroline as she endeavors to leave her marble prison once and for all. . . .
I spoke with Bourland over Zoom about the princess trap, the inescapable pervasion of the monarchy, and fiction as catharsis.
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FOX5 | AUGUST 15, 2022
Author Karin Slaughter discusses her new book, "Girl, Forgotten" a sequel to the Netflix smash hit "Pieces of Her".
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FOX13 | AUGUST 15, 2022
International best-selling crime writer Karin Slaughter previews her new mystery, "Girl, Forgotten."
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY | August 11, 2022
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks. First Second, $24.99; ISBN 978-1-250-77281-7; $14.99 paper; ISBN 978-1-250-77282-4.
A group of riding camp veterans are surprised to find a former rival camp’s student at their camp for the summer, and despite their initial first impressions of one another, they bond over their love of horses and competing. The middle grade graphic novel earned a starred review from PW.
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BOSTON GLOBE | AUGUST 11, 2022
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks
WEDNESDAY Faith Erin Hicks (“Ride On”) is in conversation with Kristin Varner and Gene Luen Yang at 7 p.m. at An Unlikely Story.
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THE CHILDREN’S BOOKSHELF | AUGUST 8, 2022
RIDE ON by writer and artist Faith Erin Hicks with colors by Kelly Fitzpatrick is an exceptionally beautiful graphic novel about horses and friendships.
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DEADLINE | AUGUST 8, 2022
ABC has picked up drama pilot Will Trent (working title) to series for a midseason launch.
Based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling “Will Trent” series, the series stars Rodriguez as Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI), who was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. But now, determined to use his unique point of view to make sure no one is abandoned like he was, Will Trent has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.
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