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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.]] |
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17 | --> '''Michael:''' She's fifteen. |
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