Title:The Kept Woman

Author:Karin Slaughter

Series:Will Trent, #8

Published:September 2016, William Morrow

Format:Hardcover, 480 pages

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.

Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.

The author of the acclaimed standalone Pretty Girls returns
with this long-awaited new novel in her bestselling Will Trent
series—an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges the
Georgia detective into the darkest depths of a case that just might
destroy him.

With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned
construction site, Will Trent and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
are brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead
man is identified as an ex-cop.

Studying the body, Sara
Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that
the extensive blood loss didn’t belong to the corpse. Sure enough,
bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another
victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t
found.

Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to
the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically
connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers—a man
who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts
to put him away.

But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon
links Will’s troubled past to the case . . . and the consequences will
tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for
Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family,
friends—and even the suspects he pursues.

Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman
is a searing novel of love, loss, and redemption. A seamless blend of
twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller, it marks
Karin Slaughter’s triumphant return to her most popular series, sure to
please new and diehard fans alike.

What readers are saying: 

“Exciting…an intense look at the nature of loss and control, and how love can taint both.” –Publishers Weekly

“Suspense
that continually ratchets upward, a revealing look at domestic violence
in all levels of society, and the continued development of a tight-knit
cast of characters. This is prime Slaughter, must-read fare for
thriller fans.” —Booklist

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