The Kept Woman -- Karin Slaughter

<p><strong>"Part <em>True Detective</em>, part <em>The Girl on the Train</em>. All parts gripping." --theSkimm<em> </em></strong></p><p><strong>The <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Pieces of Her</em> returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges Will Trent into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him. </strong></p><p><em>Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. </em></p><p><em>Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.</em><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will's troubled past to the case . . . and the c