With suicides, the victim is the murderer. In BROKEN, Detective Lena Adams waits for divers to pull a young man from Lake Grant. His suicide note has already been found. But the body shows signs of a struggle and, suddenly, his death becomes a murder investigation. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations, with Special Agent Will Trent, come in to assist. Slaughter mines to the core of her characters to find a story that is startlingly sinister, and irrepressibly human.