Karin Slaughters new thriller is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good mans deepest secrets. Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amandas motivation, until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before­when Wills father was imprisoned for murderthis was his home Flash back nearly forty years: In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda Wagner is taking her first steps in the boys club that is the Atlanta police department.
