Husbands and wives. 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.. . .
Evidence soon links Will\'s troubled past to the case . 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. . .
Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim-a woman-who has vanished .
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.
The past and the future.
Secrets bind them.
Mothers and daughters.
Husbands and wives