A hero whom Will's superiors at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have spent the last six months investigating for rape.īut for Will-and also for Sara Linton, the GBI's newest medical examiner-the case is about to get even worse. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest and most high-profile athlete-a local hero protected by the world's most expensive lawyers. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor-the body of an ex-cop. Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller - a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career.

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. Evidence soon links Will's troubled past to the case.

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.īut the worst is yet to come. and who will die soon if she isn't found. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim - a woman - who has vanished. 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. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter