"One of the most popular series in current crime reading . . . love it for the interesting detective work, but also for the evolution in Sara's life. . . . Irresistible."
The Globe and Mail on The Silent Wife
"The emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural that will please readers of Slaughter’s “Grant County” series. For fans of Meg Gardiner, David Baldacci, and Carrie Smith."
Library Journal on The Silent Wife
[The Last Widow ] does what all great Slaughter books do: keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s a chilling whodunit for our times.
"An all-time HQ fave . . . it gets dark. This one goes out to the twisty thriller fans."
theSkimm on The Silent WIfe
"If you want to be chilled to the bone, pick up Slaughter's latest, The Silent Wife . . . it's absolutely mesmerizing."
null Popsugar on The Silent Wife
"The emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural that will please readers of Slaughter’s “Grant County” series. For fans of Meg Gardiner, David Baldacci, and Carrie Smith."
null Library Journal on The Silent Wife
"Splendid . . . When it comes to intricate plotting nothing daunts Slaughter and she’s in prime form."
null The Toronto Star on The Silent Wife
[The Last Widow ] does what all great Slaughter books do: keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s a chilling whodunit for our times.
null Parade on The Last Widow
"As one can only expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller, her latest book The Silent Wife comes with just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill that will keep longtime fans of her Will Trent series on their toes—and welcome new readers to the party."
null Parade on The Silent Wife
"One of the most popular series in current crime reading . . . love it for the interesting detective work, but also for the evolution in Sara's life. . . . Irresistible."
null The Globe and Mail on The Silent Wife
Slaughter adds depth to her best-selling series with the investigations of old and current cases, while also advancing the key personal relationship. Another slam dunk.
null Booklist (starred review) on The Silent Wife
"Slaughter has said she wants to make violence against women real to people who don’t get it. She succeeds in The Silent Wife . . . [readers] will eat up."
null Washington Post on The Silent Wife
"Karin Slaughter knows how to craft a character. . . . Slaughter’s fans know exactly what they’re in for when they pick up one of her thrillers, but there’s nothing formulaic about them—that spine-tingling chill her stories evoke is largely organic."
null The Big Thrill on The Silent Wife
"An all-time HQ fave . . . it gets dark. This one goes out to the twisty thriller fans."
null theSkimm on The Silent WIfe
With familiar characters, further developed here, and a plot as timely as it is riveting, Slaughter’s latest will enthrall her ever-growing legion of fans. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Slaughter’s thrillers have become near-automatic best-sellers, and this is one of her best.
null Booklist (starred review) on The Last Widow
There’s never a dull moment in Georgia with Karin Slaughter on the literary rampage.
Washington Post on The Last Widow
With familiar characters, further developed here, and a plot as timely as it is riveting, Slaughter’s latest will enthrall her ever-growing legion of fans. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Slaughter’s thrillers have become near-automatic best-sellers, and this is one of her best.
Booklist (starred review) on The Last Widow
Her talent is the equivalent of an Edgar Allan Poe or a Nathaniel Hawthorne . . . An exemplary storyteller, weaving her words with skill and intelligence. She will be recognized as one of the great talents of the 21st century and will hold an honored place in the realm of world literature.
Slaughter’s work is like a professional athlete coming to the playground to show the kids how it’s done. With her themes, tensions and metaphors, she has a talent for classic literature that is often missing in recent fiction.
It’s Slaughter’s prodigious gifts of characterization that make her stand out among thriller writers.
One of the boldest thriller writers working today.
"Fiction doesn’t get any better than this.
It’s Slaughter’s prodigious gifts of characterization that make her stand out among thriller writers.
Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivaled among thriller writers, and if you haven’t yet read her, this is the moment.
There’s never a dull moment in Georgia with Karin Slaughter on the literary rampage.
Washington Post on The Last Widow
"If you want to be chilled to the bone, pick up Slaughter's latest, The Silent Wife . . . it's absolutely mesmerizing."
Popsugar on The Silent Wife
"Slaughter has said she wants to make violence against women real to people who don’t get it. She succeeds in The Silent Wife . . . [readers] will eat up."
Washington Post on The Silent Wife
"As one can only expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller, her latest book The Silent Wife comes with just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill that will keep longtime fans of her Will Trent series on their toes—and welcome new readers to the party."
Parade on The Silent Wife
"Karin Slaughter knows how to craft a character. . . . Slaughter’s fans know exactly what they’re in for when they pick up one of her thrillers, but there’s nothing formulaic about them—that spine-tingling chill her stories evoke is largely organic."
The Big Thrill on The Silent Wife
If you’re into mystery thrillers, then you’re into Karin Slaughter.”
Slaughter adds depth to her best-selling series with the investigations of old and current cases, while also advancing the key personal relationship. Another slam dunk.
Booklist (starred review) on The Silent Wife
"Splendid . . . When it comes to intricate plotting nothing daunts Slaughter and she’s in prime form."
The Toronto Star on The Silent Wife
"As one can only expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller, her latest book The Silent Wife comes with just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill that will keep longtime fans of her Will Trent series on their toes—and welcome new readers to the party."
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[The Last Widow ] does what all great Slaughter books do: keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s a chilling whodunit for our times.
null Paradeon The Last Widow
There’s never a dull moment in Georgia with Karin Slaughter on the literary rampage.
null Washington Poston The Last Widow
07/01/2020
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. VERDICT The emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural that will please readers of Slaughter's "Grant County" series. For fans of Meg Gardiner, David Baldacci, and Carrie Smith.—George Lichman, Rocky River, OH
2020-07-14 A Georgia prison inmate’s offer to unmask a phone-smuggling operation in return for reopening his pedophilia conviction leads Slaughter’s regulars into an eight-year-old case that strikes all too close to home.
Daryl Nesbitt insists to Will Trent and Faith Mitchell, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, that he was railroaded by Grant County Detective Lena Adams and that the sexual images of children on his computer were fruit of the poisonous tree that should never have been admitted into evidence. He certainly didn’t attack Grant Tech student Rebecca Caterino, brutally assault her, and leave her for dead; the real scandals are that Lena, the ranking detective on the scene, didn’t realize that Beckey was alive till GBI medical examiner Sara Linton realized it half an hour after the police came on the scene and that after Lena sent Leslie Truong, the fellow student who found Beckey’s body, walking back to campus, Leslie was raped and murdered before she arrived. Not only are there horrors aplenty along the trail of what looks like a serial killer who may still be notching two victims a year, but revisiting the earlier crimes gives Slaughter, through a series of extended flashbacks, a chance to relitigate the breakup of Sara’s marriage to late Grant County chief of police Jeffrey Tolliver, who headed the investigation that sent Daryl Nesbitt to jail. Slaughter, renowned for her shocking opening sequences, this time reserves the horrors for her unflinching descriptions of the multiple assaults, some of which result in fates worse than death for the victims, and for Sara’s confrontation with a killer who’s both monstrous and all too human.
More slow-burning than most of Slaughter’s shockers, this one will still rattle you down to your bones.
"Slaughter has said she wants to make violence against women real to people who don’t get it. She succeeds in The Silent Wife . . . [readers] will eat up." — Washington Post on The Silent Wife
"If you want to be chilled to the bone, pick up Slaughter's latest, The Silent Wife . . . it's absolutely mesmerizing." — Popsugar on The Silent Wife
“If you’re into mystery thrillers, then you’re into Karin Slaughter.” — theSkimm
“Slaughter adds depth to her best-selling series with the investigations of old and current cases, while also advancing the key personal relationship. Another slam dunk.” — Booklist (starred review) on The Silent Wife
"Slaughter delivers an unflinching, deeply empathetic exploration of the stigma surrounding rape and the enduring trauma suffered by its survivors." — Publishers Weekly on The Silent Wife
"As one can only expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller, her latest book The Silent Wife comes with just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill that will keep longtime fans of her Will Trent series on their toes—and welcome new readers to the party." — Parade on The Silent Wife
"Karin Slaughter knows how to craft a character. . . . Slaughter’s fans know exactly what they’re in for when they pick up one of her thrillers, but there’s nothing formulaic about them—that spine-tingling chill her stories evoke is largely organic." — The Big Thril l on The Silent Wife
"One of the most popular series in current crime reading . . . love it for the interesting detective work, but also for the evolution in Sara's life. . . . Irresistible." — The Globe and Mail on The Silent Wife
"Splendid . . . When it comes to intricate plotting nothing daunts Slaughter and she’s in prime form." — The Toronto Star on The Silent Wife
"The emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police procedural that will please readers of Slaughter’s “Grant County” series. For fans of Meg Gardiner, David Baldacci, and Carrie Smith." — Library Journa l on The Silent Wife
“One of the boldest thriller writers working today.” — Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author
“Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivaled among thriller writers, and if you haven’t yet read her, this is the moment.” — Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author
“It’s Slaughter’s prodigious gifts of characterization that make her stand out among thriller writers.” — Washington Post
“Her talent is the equivalent of an Edgar Allan Poe or a Nathaniel Hawthorne . . . An exemplary storyteller, weaving her words with skill and intelligence. She will be recognized as one of the great talents of the 21st century and will hold an honored place in the realm of world literature.” — The Huffington Post
“There’s never a dull moment in Georgia with Karin Slaughter on the literary rampage.” — Washington Post on The Last Widow
“[The Last Widow ] does what all great Slaughter books do: keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s a chilling whodunit for our times.” — Parade on The Last Widow
“With a well-written, intriguing plot and an edge-of-the-seat ending, this is sure to keep readers up late into the night.” — Library Journal (starred review) on The Last Widow
“Slaughter’s work is like a professional athlete coming to the playground to show the kids how it’s done. With her themes, tensions and metaphors, she has a talent for classic literature that is often missing in recent fiction.” — RT Book Reviews
"Fiction doesn’t get any better than this.” — Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author
"An all-time HQ fave . . . it gets dark. This one goes out to the twisty thriller fans." — theSkimm on The Silent WIfe
A series of horrific rapes has authorities mystified. Investigator Will Trent and Medical Examiner Sara Linton dig deep into the case, examining clues as well as their love life. Kathleen Early delivers the story, which is set in the South and jumps between two timeframes. She shines mostly with the accents of several secondary characters. A medical examiner is given a slow, kindly drawl, and a woman in charge of investigators has a wonderfully creative gruff voice. Sara’s sister has a slightly different cadence, which helps when the siblings are talking. The author’s graphic descriptions of heinous acts bring home the seriousness of sexual crimes. M.B. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
SEPTEMBER 2020 - AudioFile