“Stories that get under your skin. That’s what you can expect from Karin Slaughter’s domestic crime thrillers. As she returns this summer to her popular Will Trent series with The Silent Wife (William Morrow), it’s not lost on the best-selling author that her 20th book, despite the dark nature of her writing, means that good fortune has followed her.
’I feel really fortunate because there are a lot of writers out there struggling, and my take home from that is I need to earn it every day,’ she says. ‘I’m proud that I’ve held to the choice to write about recovery and the kind of expectations that women tie themselves in knots over when they become victims of violence.’
Slaughter’s The Silent Wife re-introduces Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Will Trent as he investigates a young woman’s brutal murder. The trail goes cold, but when a chance assignment takes Trent to the state penitentiary, it’s a prisoner who recognizes the attack, which looks identical to the one he was accused of eight years earlier. As Trent digs into both crimes, it’s clear that the original case must first be solved, but a decade has passed, and so have memories, witnesses and evidence. Everyone’s favorite medical examiner, Sara Linton, must help Trent hunt down a ruthless murderer.
As excitement builds for the summer release, Parade.com is presenting the highly-anticipated cover of The Silent Wife for the first time here!”
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