The Kept Woman: A Will Trent Thriller (Will Trent, 8)

ISBN: 0062496654

Author: Slaughter, Karin

Condition: New

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!Part True Detective, part The Girl on the Train. All parts gripping. --theSkimmThe New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges Will Trent into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is 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 GBIs newest medical examiner and Wills 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 isnt found.Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the citys most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the worlds most expensive lawyers-a man whos already gotten away with rape, despite Wills exhaustive efforts to put him away.But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Wills 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 seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller -- a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.