Catching up on the books I read while in Hawaii on vacation.

Criminal, the sixth entry in Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent series and my seventh overall, straddles two time periods, the 1970s and the present day, to show how Amanda Wagner got her start in the male-oriented Atlanta PD and what her connection is to Will Trent. When the killer arrested by Wagner and Evelyn Mitchell in their first case together is paroled, Wagner suspects him in a similar crime today. There’s only one problem: the suspect is Will’s father. Can she keep him away from the case while trying to solve it quickly?

If i have one complaint with Slaughter’s series, it’s that all of the characters, police, perps, and everyone in between, have some connection. That trait rears its ugly head once again here, as we learn that Wagner rescued Will Trent as a baby, named him, and kept watch out for him over the years.  Aside from that, the stories are engrossing and enjoyable, but the interconnectedness just pulls you out of the story.