Will Trent · Book 13
The Silent Wife
- Published
- 4 August 2020
- Pages
- 664
- ISBN-13
- 9780062858108
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Silent Wife (2020) is the longest novel in the series at 664 pages, arriving as the tenth entry. It keeps to the series' hallmark structure -- graphic, forensically precise Atlanta crime fiction built around Will's obsessive case-solving and his relationship with Sara Linton.
Its place in Will Trent
The Silent Wife is book 13 in the Will Trent series. It follows The Last Widow. It is followed by After That Night. See the full Will Trent reading order.
Will Trent is a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and one of crime fiction's most distinctive detectives: abandoned as a baby, raised brutally in Atlanta's foster system, and severely dyslexic in a job built on paperwork. He compensates with obsessive observation and a near-perfect memory for what people say and do, closing cases other agents can't while hiding the reading disability he is sure will end his career. Around him Karin Slaughter builds a ferocious ensemble — his volatile partner…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062858108
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062999160