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3	"Tripytch" is a police procedural written by Georgian crime novelist Karin Slaughter. A killer is taking the lives of women in Atlanta. Many different people, including a troubled detective named Will Trent and an ex-con, are forced to band together to stop him. But some of those people working the case know more than they’re letting on.
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5	This is the first book in Karin Slaughter's series starring Will Trent.
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7	!!"Triptych" contains examples of:
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9	* AloneWithThePsycho: Angie breaks into [[spoiler:Detective Ormewood]]'s house looking for evidence.
10	** Also later, when [[spoiler:Angie]] is kidnapped by the killer and locked in the cellar.
11	* LIsForDyslexia: One of the main characters, Detective Will Trent, is seriously dyslexic and can barely read. He spends a great deal of energy trying to hide this from his superiors in the police department.
12	* MiscarriageOfJustice: John spent years in prison after being wrongly convicted at age sixteen of murdering his cousin, a crime. The real killer [[spoiler:Michael Ormewood]] is not pleased to hear of his parole.
13	* RapeAsBackstory: Vice cop Angie Polaski grew up in abusive foster homes and has been raped multiple times. She was also [[spoiler:sexually assaulted one night by fellow detective Michael Ormewood, the villain of the story.]]
14	* TongueTrauma: The killer bites out his victims' tongues.
15	* UnreliableNarrator: The first part of the book is told from the point of view of Detective Michael Ormewood. He seems like a nice guy at first, a solid cop with a keen insight into the mind of the killer-[[spoiler: until you realize just where his insight into the killer's mind comes from.]]
16	%%* WhamLine:
17	--> '''Michael:''' She's fifteen.

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