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The Silent Wife

The Silent Wife

A Novel
CrimeMystery
Pages
496
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

A routine prison visit turns when an inmate tells GBI agent Will Trent that a fresh murder is the twin of the crime he was locked up for eight years ago — which means, he insists, that the real killer is still free. To find out whether he's right, Will has to reopen a case gone cold in every way: faded memories, scattered witnesses, vanished evidence. He'll need medical examiner Sara Linton beside him to run down a predator who has been patient, careful, and lethal for a very long time. The tenth Will Trent thriller.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

TenseDarkGrittyMysterious
Morally Grey

Genres

Crime Mystery Thriller Amateur Sleuth Police Procedural

About the author

K
Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter (born January 6, 1971, in Covington, Georgia) is an American crime and thriller novelist based in Atlanta. She is best known for the Grant County series and the Will Trent series, as well as standalone thrillers including Pretty Girls, Cop Town, The Good Daughter, and Pieces of Her. Her novels have been translated into dozens of languages and adapted for television, including Netflix's Pieces of Her and the Will Trent series. She founded Save the Libraries, a nonprofit supporting...

Characters

Will TrentProtagonist

The GBI special agent who reopens the eight-year-old case.

Sara LintonSupporting

The medical examiner who works the case alongside Will.

All characters in The Silent Wife