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EXCERPT: Good morning Dani I really enjoyed the other night . . . not often I get to be with someone who's smart as well as beautiful . . . rare combination.

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I've got the contact info for the Stanhope campaign if you're still interested in volunteering?

Who is this?

Funny! I know they are looking for canvassers are you still interested in helping? I could pick you up on my way to campaign HQ if you want?

I'm sorry I think you have the wrong person

You're on Juniper in the Beauxarts bldg right?

No I moved in with my boyfriend.

I love your sense of humour, Dani. Really want to spend more time with you. I know you love taking in the view of the park from your corner bedroom. Maybe you can introduce me to Lord Pantaloons.

How do you know about my cat?

I know everything about you.

Srsly did Jen put you up to this? Yr creeping me out.

I keep thinking about that mole on your leg and how I want to kiss it . . . again . . .

Who the fuck is this?

Do you really want to know?

This isn't funny. Tell me who the fuck you are.

There's a pen and paper in the drawer beside your bed. Make a list of everything that terrifies you. That's me.

ABOUT 'AFTER THAT NIGHT': After that night, nothing was ever the same again …

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her.

Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper's assault is uncannily linked to Sara's.

And it seems the past isn't going to stay buried forever …

MY THOUGHTS: Long-winded with a touch too much technical medical stuff, but totally engrossing.

I haven't read a Will Trent book in a while and I didn't realise until I started this how much I had been missing out on, so I have some catching up to do. It would be possible to read this as a stand-alone, but it's a stellar series and, in all probability, you're going to want to read the whole series so why not just start at the beginning.

Karin Slaughter manages to combine all the nuances of everyday life with a cracker of a crime novel. Sara and Will's wedding day is enticingly close: can Will dance? Does Sara have pearls to wear with her wedding dress? Can Faith change her son's mind about his career choice? You know the stuff . . .

Will and Faith are already on boss Amanda's sh*tlist when they decide to go rogue and investigate a case without her authorization after a rape victim dies under Sara's care and utters a plea for Sara to make sure her rapist is caught with her dying breath.

The plot is complex but riveting. There is a sense of despair as the rapist appears to get away with his crime, but Sara, Faith and Will are spurred on by another very similar crime and an apparent connection to Sara's rape many years earlier.

Slaughter has drawn some magnificent characters from the wealthy, arrogant, entitled to the doggedly determined to the greedy and corrupt.

I laughed at the crime board covering Faith's fridge door and kitchen cabinets. I cried at the pain and trauma of the rape victims. I was awed by the twists Slaughter incorporated into the plot.

This is not an easy read, but Karin Slaughter's books never are. It is an excellent read and was very nearly a five star read for me but I do admit to glazing over at the sheer amount of technical medical information and terminology in parts.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

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THE AUTHOR: Karin Slaughter is the author of more than twenty instant New York Times bestselling novels. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction, HarperCollins via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of After That Night by Karin Slaughter for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.