The Silent Wife: A NovelWATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! “If you’re into mystery thrillers, then you’re into Karin Slaughter.” —THESKIMM He watches. He waits. He takes. Who will be next . . . THE SILENT WIFE Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder. Only days ago, another young woman was viciously murdered in a state park in northern Georgia. Is it a fluke, or could there be a serial killer on the loose? As Will Trent digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the cold case in order to find the answer. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear, and lies to become truth. But Will can’t crack either mystery without the help of the one person he doesn’t want involved: his girlfriend and Jeffrey Tolliver’s widow, medical examiner Sara Linton. When the past and present begin to collide, Will realizes that everything he values is at stake . . . |
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... shoulder at the checkout line, and she's texting the shit out of her boyfriend.” Faith had moved on to another story. “Then she leaves, and I'm stuck forever wondering whether or not her boyfriend really did hook up with her sister ...
... shoulders . The belly chain would add extra stress to the small of your back as your hands were pulled forward by gravity . Apparently , the inmates had been posed this way for a while . Sweat streaked down the walls . Will saw limbs ...
... shoulder before leaving . Will gave far too much attention to the shoulder grab - pat . It was somewhere between a Vulcan death grip and rustling the fur on a dog's butt . Faith waited until the door clicked closed . " Was that ...
... That shithole county was a pressure. Will didn't look over her shoulder at the letter . He watched Nick's face . The man was a study in conflict . The only thing Nick seemed sure about was that he was not going to look in Will's direction .
... , angry slope of his shoulders . If he wasn't hiding something , then she was in the wrong business . He pointed to the articles again . " You need to read these . You'll understand . " She read off some of the headlines from the first.