From the No.1 bestselling author comes a gripping new crime thriller featuring WILL TRENT and SARA LINTON. 'Simply one of the best thriller writers working today' Gillian FlynnAtlanta, 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 recognises 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 ...Praise for Karin Slaughter:'Crime fiction at its finest' Michael Connelly'Fiction doesn't get any better than this' Jeffrey Deaver'A writer of extraordinary talents' Kathy Reichs'Karin Slaughter has - by far - the best name of all of us mystery novelists' James Patterson'A masterful storyteller who doesn't mind treading down the darker paths of crime writing' Good Reading'In a class of her own' West Australian'It's not hyperbolic to declare that Slaughter is a master of her craft' Booklist starred review'She really does make your hair stand on end' Kirkus starred review
