Beyond The Cover with special guest Karin Slaughter
b'Karin Slaughter "The Kept Woman":\\xa0\\n\\nHusbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.\\n\\nSecrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.\\n\\nThe author of\\xa0Pretty Girls\\xa0returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him.\\n\\nWith 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.\\n\\nStudying the body, Sara Linton\\u2014the GBI\\u2019s newest medical examiner and Will\\u2019s lover\\u2014realizes that the extensive blood loss didn\\u2019t belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim\\u2014a woman\\u2014who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn\\u2019t found.\\n\\nWill is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city\\u2019s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world\\u2019s most expensive lawyers\\u2014a man who\\u2019s already gotten away with rape, despite Will\\u2019s exhaustive efforts to put him away.\\n\\nBut the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will\\u2019s 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\\u2014and even the suspects he pursues.\\n\\nRelentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page,\\xa0The Kept Woman\\xa0is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller.'