About the Fallen

Now available for the trade paperback reader who enjoys a thought-provoking, electrifying thriller, Fallen is a testament that "[Slaughter's] talent is the equivalent of an Edgar Allan Poe or a Nathaniel Hawthorne...She will be recognized as one of the great talents of the 21st century and will hold an honored place in the realm of world literature" (Huffington Post on Fallen).
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation teaches its agents to be calm in the face of danger, to always keep a level head, to never take a case personally. For Special Agent Faith Mitchell, all those rules are shattered the instant she finds a bloody handprint on the door of her childhood home. Her life as a cop and her home life collide in a terrifying instant when she goes to pick her four-month-old daughter up from her mother's and finds the child left alone in a tool shed, a gangland hostage situation in her mother's bedroom, and her mother vanished into thin air. Will Trent and Sara Linton, the beloved characters from Slaughter's two acclaimed series, are on the case, going up against a ticking clock and a baffling set of clues. At the center is Faith, who may not know her mother as well as she thought...