“She had always believed—vehemently, with great conviction—that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.”

Karin Slaughter is a well-oiled machine gun: precise, clinical, reliable. I told myself to take a break from her after “Pretty Girls” but “Pieces” lured me in, chewed me up, spit me out. Certainly not as dark as others in her catalog, but just as engaging and fast paced, with revelations until the very last page. 

How well can you know someone? Do you really want to?

4/5 If you’re gonna watch the show, read the book first. They take a lot of liberties that really shitty it up.