Karin SlaughterThriller · Crime·b. 1971
The Last Widow
Synopsis
On a hot summer night, unknown assailants seize a CDC scientist in the parking lot of a shopping center. She vanishes, and the authorities are desperate to get her back.
A month later, on a sunny Sunday afternoon, a blast shakes one of Atlanta's busiest and most important neighborhoods, followed seconds later by a second. The area holds Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters and the CDC itself.
Sara Linton, a medical examiner, hurries to the scene with her partner Will Trent, who investigates for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. What they find there leads them into a deadly conspiracy that threatens thousands of innocent lives.
Then the assailants abduct Sara. Will goes undercover to reach her and to stop a massacre, and he risks his own life for the woman he loves and for his country.
The thriller moves between a kidnapping, a bombing and an infiltration, with Will and Sara at its center. Everything turns on whether Will can get to Sara before the plot reaches its target.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (3)
Graphic ViolenceGoreKidnapping





































