The Kept Woman: A Novel

<p>Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.</p><p>Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>