The Kept Woman
Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.
Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.
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.
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. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found.
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.
But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case . . . 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.
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Crime is never black and white in Karin Slaughter’s world—it’s raw, relentless, and deeply personal. With a scalpel-sharp precision that has become her signature, Slaughter dissects the darkest corners of human nature, crafting thrillers that are as psychologically rich as they are unflinchingly brutal. Her stories don’t just unfold; they unravel, layer by layer, exposing the complexity of justice, trauma, and survival.
Born in Georgia, Slaughter grew up surrounded by Southern storytelling, a tradition that infused her work with a deep sense of place and history. She credits her early fascination with crime to a childhood spent in the shadow of real-life violence. The South, with its haunting past and tangled moral codes, became the perfect backdrop for her novels—where the sins of the past bleed into the present and justice is rarely simple.
Will Trent
In the shadows of Atlanta, where justice is never black and white, an investigator like no other untangles the city’s darkest crimes. The Will Trent series plunges readers into the world of a man shaped by a brutal past—an orphan who grew up invisible, now wielding his uncanny ability to read between the lines where others see nothing. Will Trent doesn’t just solve cases; he exposes the fractures beneath polite society, uncovering secrets that fester in silence.
Will Trent consists of twelve primary books, and includes two additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
