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Hot off her new title PRETTY GIRLS, New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns to her bestselling Will Trent series for the first time in three years.

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"Part True Detective, part The Girl on the Train. All parts gripping." --theSkimm

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.

Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.

The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.

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.

Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller -- a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.

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"Exciting...an intense look at the nature of loss and control, and how love can taint both." Publishers Weekly

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Karin Slaughter is one of the world´s most popular and acclaimed storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 35 million copies sold across the globe, her eighteen novels include the Grant County and Will Trent books, as well as the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and the instant New York Times bestselling novels Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project-a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, Karin Slaughter lives in Atlanta. Her standalone novels The Good Daughter and Cop Town are in development for film and television.

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