THE SILENT WIFE by Karin Slaughter

“If you are into mystery and thrillers, then you are into Karin Slaughter”

I have received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion on this book and I can’t be grateful enough. This is one of those books that I crave for. It kept me guessing, it kept me breathless and left me speechless. I was like WTF!!!! But I kept reading and I couldn’t stop until I finished it and I had that urge of starting it all over again. This book is so twisted and plays with one’s mind. It is definitely not for the weak.

The gruesome descriptions sent shivers down my spine and I am telling you, I had days when I kept looking back to make sure I am not followed, not to mention that I will definitely keep away from the local woods on my morning runs. At least for a while.

SYNOPSIS

Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder.

Only days ago, another young woman was viciously murdered in a state park in northern Georgia. Is it a fluke, or could there be a serial killer on the loose?

As Will Trent digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the cold case in order to find the answer. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear, and lies to become truth. But Will can’t crack either mystery without the help of the one person he doesn’t want involved: his girlfriend and Jeffrey Tolliver’s widow, medical examiner Sara Linton.

When the past and present begin to collide, Will realizes that everything he values is at stake . . .

I have to say that THE SILENT WIFE by Karin Slaughter is one of the few books I have read and made me sink into the story so much that I was afraid. She builds up the events with such detail that you can’t stop and wonder if there is some truth in it, if such events are actually likely to happen in this twisted world.

Reading this book I have only one regret: I don’t have a paperback of it and Kindle does not do justice at all to this story just like it didn’t in the case of The Lies you Told by Harriet Tyce

Reviewing this book I have to mark it with ☕☕☕☕☕