'NEW YORK TIMES 'BESTSELLER Karin Slaughter, author of thebestselling 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 manhunt rock the city s police department, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. She s determined to defy her privileged background by making her own way wearing a badge and carrying a gun. But for a beautiful young woman, life will be anything but easy in the macho world of the Atlanta PD, where even the female cops have little mercy for rookies. It s also the worst day possible to start given that a beloved cop has been gunned down, his brothers in blue are out for blood, and the city is on the edge of war. Kate isn t the
