The Silent Wife

The Will Trent Series, Book 10

De: Karin Slaughter

Narrado por: Kathleen Early

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The New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her returns with the next novel in the Will Trent series that “comes with just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill” (Parade).

He watches. He waits. He takes. Who will be next . . .

Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will Trent to the state penitentiary, and to a prisoner who says he recognizes the MO. The attack looks identical to the one he was accused of eight years earlier. The prisoner’s always insisted that he was innocent, and now he’s sure he has proof. The killer is still out there.

As Will digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the original case in order to reach the truth. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear. And now he needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake …]

©2020 Karin Slaughter (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Same Ole Story

This book was about 16 hours too long. If you have read any Will Trent/Grant County books, it’s very predictable. I even had to verify that this wasn’t a re-release because the ending was so familiar. The Formula: Once again, Sara is in distress and danger, some women are horrendously brutalized, Amanda and Faith are mean and sarcastic, but all the world still revolves around Sara. This should not be called a Will Trent book, but a Sara Linton book. And I have had enough.

Slaughter and Early are a wonderful team.

I love Slaughter’s writing with her great characters, sharp wit and gritty mysteries. Kathleen Early is one of the best narrators in the business. The synergy these two create is remarkable.

Will Trent returns, but it’s clearly more about his girlfriend Sarah Litton. It’s a great mystery and a fun one for listening.

Lena Would be in a Prison Cell

I know this is only a fictional world, but if she were a real person, Lena Adams would be a GDOC inmate by now. She is negligent, dangerous, manipulative, and in just good, old fashioned parlance: a dirty cop. I’ve listened all of the Grant County and Will Trent books, and there is only one where her character even remotely has redeeming qualities. I cannot remember the name, but it’s the one with the Grant County Police Department office under siege. The rest of Lena’s parts show an irredeemable, flawed character who gets worse with each passing story. In The Silent Wife, she openly impedes an investigation, which (in my very humble opinion) leads to the last abduction. The online, amateur sleuth in this story is actually a much better detective than Lena.

Now, I realize Lena is the villain in Sara’s story alone, but she is portrayed as a bumbling, ridiculous cop. She would have never made detective in any other department, based on her mistakes in this case alone. Her mistakes in the other stories make her dangerous. In my count, she is openly responsible for the deaths of, at least, three cops, an innocent man (who happens to be IDD), and a witness (and maybe 15 women in this story alone).

Anyway, Kathleen Early does a great job narrating this story. Some of the voices sound alike, but she does a good job differentiating, for the most part. I actually like her “Amanda voice.”

Top 3 Best books in the series!

I couldn’t stop listening! So many twists and turns. I haven’t read Grant County series but this books makes me want to read. I love Will and Amanda’s conversations and story!

Loooove!

This book has been the best one yet in the series! I have one more to go and I don’t want it to end. I really hope there will be more of Sara and Will.