The Secrets We Hide (North Falls Book #2) by Karin Slaughter

Traveling With T purchased this book for her own personal reading time.

The Secrets We Hide

Summary: The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.

Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth.

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…

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

A book by Karin Slaughter is usually like a gut punch to me. There’s good (sometimes great writing), characters that stick with you long after the story is over, and usually a ending that makes you know there is another book coming.

But Karin does not shy away from the gritty world. The world of violence. And sometimes that makes her books hard to read.

I always want to read them. But they can be emotionally hard at times- not because she’s exaggerating things…. but because she’s telling the truth about the world. The violence against women, specifically.

In this book, you learn some things about women cops and the men they are involved with and it stuff that makes you think about women and violence.

What I liked:

This cover really goes with the story and the deeper you get into it, the more you realize how the cover is telling.

Emmy and Jude. Honestly, both of them are great characters. Deeply layered.

The mystery. Once you figure it out, it’s heartbreaking. But there are so many clues, so many red herrings… your mind spins on all the options this story could take.. until you see how it’s got to play out.

Bottom line: As usual, Karin Slaughter shines a light on the real world. While entertaining is not exactly the right word to use to describe her books, I do enjoy them and am looking forward to book 3 in North Falls series.

*This book was purchased by Traveling With T for own personal reading time. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*