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The Silent Wife

Karin Slaughter

4.17 AVERAGE

dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Gripping, thrilling and chilling! 
A great twist I didn’t expect! 
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Karin Slaughter is back with a relentless thriller. You can't turn the pages fast enough. At places, attempts to recap the history of the characters is a little distracting, specially for readers who have read all the previous books in the series, but overall for a book this size, the pace is fast and makes reading enjoyable.
dark tense
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

readingelfsmile's review

5.0

A prison riot leads to the death of an inmate and brings in the Georgia Bureau of Investigations to examine the scene. While the team is at the prison they get word that one of the inmates wants to exchange information. The inmate will give specifics about the murder and a phone smuggling ring, if the GBI investigates a murder that he was blamed for. Things get intense when investigators hear that the inmate is accusing a beloved former police chief of setting him up.
Karin Slaughter is one of my favorite authors, and she doesn’t disappoint with this book being a page turning thrilling ride. I love the characters, the love stories, the gritty dark details, and the beginning, the middle, and the end.

Content Warning: Graphic details about rape and murder