The Silent Wife

In Slaughter’s 10th “Will Trent” novel (following The Last Widow), Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Will Trent and his partner Faith Mitchell are investigating a murder during a riot at one of Georgia’s prisons when an inmate claims to have new information about rapes and murders that occurred nearly a decade ago in Grant County. If the man’s allegations are true, it means the wrong person has been blamed. It also implicates Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, late husband of medical examiner Sara Linton, and the entire Grant County police department of wrongdoing and attributes several more murders to the same killer. Moving between the Grant County investigation years earlier and the current investigation, this thriller depicts a killer’s increasing brutality and sophistication while evading police attention. Will struggles with his role in Sara’s life as her painful past and his insecurities are revealed to each other.