We Are All Guilty Here (2025) by American writer, Karin Slaughter, has a couple of Care Experienced Characters.

One is lurking in the background throughout the story. Wesley Woodrow, at the beginning of the novel, is a 16-year-old living with his grandmother and already in trouble with the local police for dealing drugs.

However, it’s not Woody who is raping and killing teenage girls. That turns out to be 3 respected members of the community, men no-one would suspect of such horrors.

The other Care Experienced Character is *spoiler alert* central to the story. Emmy is a local cop investigating missing teenager girls. What we find out at the end of the novel is that Emmy has been raised in the kinship care of her grandparents, people she thinks are her parents.