How to read the Will Trent Series in order
Will Trent books are a series of police procedural stories by the American author Karin Slaughter. While the author herself is known to prefer reading books in their order of publication, most of her work can be enjoyed standalone. However, overarching plotlines, steady character development, and the beauty of Slaughter’s style kind of demand that you read Will Trent books in order.
About the series
Will Trent books are Karin Slaughter’s second series, comprising twelve volumes in total, most of which are novels. The series follows special agent Will Trent, a man working for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
Characteristically of Slaughter’s work, the series explores the themes of violence against women and seeks to offer the reader a chance to experience detective and crime fiction as told by a female author. It is, then, not surprising that a huge chunk of the stories deals with sexual assault, harassment, rape, and other forms of victimization of young women that don’t get portrayed often and accurately enough in the male-dominated genre.
Slaughter drew most of her inspiration from the real world, observing the ways those in the upper classes often abuse their position and power to achieve their goals, which often results in domestic violence, rape, and exploitation.
The series met with largely positive reviews, and it has been adapted into an ABC TV show called Will Trent, the first season of which is currently airing.
Will Trent series order by publication
The Will Trent series comprises twelve volumes, which makes it Slaughter’s longest-running book series to date. The volumes were published in the period between 2006 and 2020, when Slaughter went on a hiatus. The sequel is set to be released this year.
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Triptych
Triptych (2006) is the first book in the series and the first of Slaughter’s novels to take place in Atlanta. It introduces Will Trent, a top-class detective on the trail of a serial rapist. The clues lead him on a dark journey into the mind of... Read more -
Play SampleFractured
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Kathleen Early
- Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 28, 2018
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDWATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! “Breathless tension!” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of [the year’s] most remarkable achievements,” crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers and critics alike... Read more -
Play SampleUndone
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Kathleen Early
- Length: 15 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDWATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky–and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one... Read more -
Play SampleBroken
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Kathleen Early
- Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 23, 2020
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDWATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This chilling mystery is just begging to be read in one sitting.”–Cosmopolitan Broken features the return of New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter’s most... Read more -
Play SampleFallen
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Kathleen Early
- Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 28, 2018
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDWATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is... Read more -
Play SampleSnatched
- By: Bruce Porter
- Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDSnatched is the electric tale by the New York Times bestselling author of Blow, Bruce Porter, that tells the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, with her life dangling in the balance. Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in... Read more -
Criminal
Criminal (2012) shows us a different Trent: he’s in love, and he’s about to put his past life behind him. However, his plans are thwarted when a student goes missing. -
Busted
In Busted (2013, novella), we see Trent on the other side of the law, although by accident. As he’s trying to fix an ice machine, he appears to be a criminal on the loose, and soon all hell breaks loose when law enforcement starts to intervene. -
Play SampleUnseen
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Kathleen Early
- Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 07, 2020
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDWATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “No one writes like Slaughter. . . . This may make her an anomaly, but she is the best damn anomaly writing books today. Make sure you read Unseen.”–The Huffington... Read more -
Play SampleThe Kept Woman
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Kathleen Early
- Length: 16 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIt’s the most dangerous case of Will Trent’s career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor–the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene... Read more -
Play SampleCleaning the Gold
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 09, 2019
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDTHE NEW SHORT STORY FROM KARIN SLAUGHTER AND LEE CHILD! Jack Reacher and Will Trent Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His... Read more -
Play SampleThe Last Widow
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrator: Kathleen Early
- Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDWATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming. A... Read more -
Play SampleThe Silent Wife
- By: A. S. A. Harrison
- Narrator: Karen White
- Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDFor fans of The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient, this New York Times bestselling novel is now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman. “I gobbled it down in one sitting.” – Anne Lamott, People A chilling... Read more -
After That Night
After That Night is set to come out in August 2023. Not much is known about the plot, but knowing Slaughter, the novel is bound to be a massive hit.
Will Trent audiobooks
Karin Slaughter is a New York Times bestselling author, so her Will Trent books are still topping all sorts of charts and reading book lists, and that makes them widely available. You can get all the novels and novellas in the series on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other retailers, either individually or as book bundles, or you can order them through the author’s official website.
If you don’t have time to read, or if you prefer listening to books instead of reading them, you can enjoy most of Slaughter’s work in audiobook format at Audible (an Amazon associate), OverDrive, and similar platforms.
Listen to the Will Trent series on Speechify Audiobooks
If you’re looking to enjoy Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent series to the fullest, you should definitely check out Speechify Audiobooks.
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FAQ
Will Trent and Sara Linton books in order?
We’ve given an outline of the Will Trent series above, but if you’re looking to branch out and read Slaughter’s other work, you can check out the Grant County series featuring medical examiner Sara Linton, another famous crime solver. Her adventures came out in the following order:
- Blindsighted (2001)
- Kisscut (2002)
- A Faint Cold Fear (2003)
- Indelible (2004)
- Faithless (2005)
- Beyond Reach (U.S.)/Skin Privilege (U.K.) (2007)
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