:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)/karin-slughter-this-is-why-we-lied-080624-tout-6ad36420aa3348dcb319dd2e4efbb3e6.jpg "Will Trent returns with a thrilling new novel – listen to an excerpt here! (Exclusive)")
Karin Slaughter brings the popular character Will Trent – currently in an ABC crime series – back to paper.
The bestselling author publishes the latest part of her Will Trent series, That is why we lied, on August 20th – and PEOPLE offers an exclusive first taste of the audio book.
In the twelfth part of the series, Georgia Bureau investigator Will Trent and his wife, coroner Sara Linton, plan to spend their honeymoon. They book a room at the McAlpine Lodge, as the secluded property seems to be the perfect place to switch off and reconnect.
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The couple’s celebratory outing is interrupted when the lodge’s manager, Mercy McAlpine, is found dead. As Will and Sara focus on investigating the lodge’s guests and the McAlpine family, they uncover decades-old secrets amid their suspects’ lies – and the real killer remains at large.
In an exclusive audiobook excerpt below, readers can learn more about Mercy and some of her final moments in the first chapter of the novel.
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Slaughter, author of over 20 books, started her Will Trent series in 2006 with the novel triptychHis story was adapted into the hit ABC show starring Ramón Rodríguez, which has attracted over 70 million viewers since its premiere in January 2023.
“It’s a crime drama with a lot of heart that doesn’t take itself too seriously,” the actor previously told PEOPLE. “Sometimes it laughs at itself. I think that’s the only fine line we’ve been able to walk so far. There’s some seriousness, some drama, but we still manage to walk that fine line and add some humor and lightness.”
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Many of her other novels have also been adapted for the screen. Her novel Pieces of her became a successful Netflix series starring Bella Heathcote and Toni Collette, and Jessica Biel will star in the upcoming Peacock adaptation of The good daughterwhich Slaughter himself adapted.
That’s why we lied will be released on August 20th and can be pre-ordered now wherever books are sold.
