Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 11/26/2024 + 1240 more book reviews

I happened onto this book in the Will Trent series at a thrift store and based on my previous reads of Slaughter, I grabbed it. I have read a few of her books including the first Trent novel, TRIPTYCH, which I thought was a really good thriller. I also have enjoyed the Will Trent TV series on ABC so I was anxious to read Last Widow. Well things have changed for Trent since the first book. THE LAST WIDOW is the ninth book in the series and Trent is now seeing Sara Linton, a medical examiner who appeared in Slaughter's earlier Grant County series. Angie Polaski, who Trent met in foster care and who he later married, is now out of the picture. I guess I need to read the intervening books to find out exactly what happened. Anyway, Last Widow starts out with a female scientist from the CDC being kidnapped in a shopping center. About a month later two bombs go off near the location of Atlanta's Emory University. Will Trent and Sara are close by and rush to the scene only to run into the assailants who have the CDC scientist held captive. A gun fight ensues and because Sara is a doctor, she is abducted by a white supremacist group and taken to a remote location. But for what purpose? Trent ends up going undercover to try to save her and prevent an unknown plot by the group. So what exactly is the plot and how does the CDC scientist fit into it?

This was another thrill ride from Slaughter that kept me turning the pages. I definitely need to read more in the series but as usual, I seem to read a lot of series books out of order. I did think this one was a little longer than it needed to be and probably could have been cut down by a hundred pages or so but overall I would still give it a high recommendation.

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