The Silent Wife - Karin Slaughter

The Silent Wife

By Karin Slaughter

  • Release Date: 2020-08-04
  • Genre: Police Procedural
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,845 Ratings

Description

WATCH 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 . . .

Reviews

  • Unreadable.

    1
    By Flinthills Jim
    Forced myself to read the first 300 pages and then gave up. I read 3 or 4 books a month and I have never felt so let down that I just walked away. .
  • The Silent Wife

    5
    By i hated this book
    Another excellent Will Trent book. The tv series is wonderful. It is renewed for the 23/24 season but with the writers strike still in effect as of 6/28/23 it is difficult to know when the actual season will start. Although I know there is a new book coming out 8/22/23 I hope that my library will carry it. I’m sure the hold will be many weeks. I have read all of the books written for Grant county. I think it’s time to revisit them.
  • Grow up Will and Sara!

    2
    By She She 1192
    The relationship between these two is childish, suspended in a junior high school time warp. The killer was apparent early on because the author repeated his type and M/O from one of her earlier criminal characters—a pharmacist…. Slaughter’s horrifying descriptions of the rapes and murders in all of their egregious and sickening detail are terrifying and to her credit, they leapt off the page to stun me. How much better for the reader if the author had been as diligent with her characters as she was with her descriptors.
  • Amazing work!

    5
    By Qcparks
    Another great read! Karin Slaughter has a way of blowing your mind with her stories. I call it the shock factor!
  • Just as good the 2nd time..

    5
    By Killa kupkakes
    Love this series of books. My second go around and I laughed, cried, cringed, and tensed all at the same places. I loved falling in love with everything all over again. Can’t wait until the new one releases.
  • DISGUSTING

    1
    By Bread Kitty🐱
    reads like an incel manifesto or a snuff film. Disgusting detail and depth of degradation and mutilation of women. Characters are boring and unlikable. Overall terrible read. No need for 15 pages worth of the most gratuitous abuse imaginable.
  • Gruesome violence

    1
    By Pinning in NJ
    This book is gruesome. The violence is incredible brutal towards women. I didn’t know this when I purchased this book. I wish I knew in advance because I wouldn’t have read it. I’m still shocked by the plot and wonder what type of mind thinks these thoughts and then wants to share them with the public.
  • The Silent Wife

    5
    By animal tech
    Could not put it down, lots of twists and turns, spellbinding. Cannot wait to read more of Karin Slaughter!
  • Mystery

    5
    By Gemom
    Great story and it filled in Jeffery for me. Everything was done in a way that you got to know the important people in Sara’s life.
  • The Silent Wife

    5
    By TCWinger
    As always I can’t put Ms. Slaughter’s books down. Loved this whole Will Trent series. Hopefully there’ll be more. Her attention to detail is unrivaled in any other books by numerous great authors I’ve read. Such flawed main characters but you’re always rooting for them. Looking forward to reading more of her books.

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