We Are All Guilty Here: A Novel (A North Falls Thriller, 1)

Karin Slaughter never disappoints. In her new thriller, We Are All Guilty Here, the story and characters pull you in from the very beginning. When two young girls go missing, Sheriff Emmy Clifton-Lang must push aside her personal matters and focus on finding the girls. After all, one of the girls, Madison Dalrymple, is Emmy’s best friend, Hannah’s stepdaughter.

The character development in this book sets everything up for the next book in the series. The Clifton family is big, and although Emmy is stuck in the middle of the clan, she really wants no part of it whatsoever. When FBI agent Jude marches onto the scene, more of the Clifton family secrets are revealed.

I found the story to be heartwrenching, and as Emmy uncovers the identities of the men found to be pedophiles, it disgusted me as well. The best part of Slaughter’s writing is that not everything turns out perfect in the end. The characters have flaws, even the heroes, and the story is messy, just like in real life. If you’re not a Karin Slaughter fan yet, you will be after reading this one.