The Silent Wife – Karin Slaughter

The Silent Wife, the tenth entry in Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent series, is really a combination of this series and her previous Grant County series.  When a disabled inmate offers to trade information on the smuggling of cell phones into the prison in exchange for as investigation into rapes and murders, of which he was suspected, that have continued since he’s been in prison.  While Will and Faith look into the newer cases, Sara is forced to look to the past, when she worked the earlier crimes with her now-deceased husband.  Will they be able to find the truth before the ghosts from the past get in the way of Will and Sara’s relationship in the present?

It took me a little over four years to read through this series, although there is a new entry on tap for later this year.  While this was a good read and I enjoyed the story, Slaughter once again leans on the crutch of having the villain have some sort of personal connection to the primary players in the investigation.  At some point, you’d think they’d take a hard look in the mirror and ask some hard questions, like why is everyone we know a serial killer?