The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

 

Will Trent and Sara Linton are about to have dinner with her parents when they hear the blast.  Black smoke pours up into the sky and they both know that means an explosion.  Will is an investigator in the Georgia State Investigative agency and Sara is a medical examiner for the agency.  The blast has come from close to Georgia Tech and the hospitals around it and they drop everything and start running towards the sound.

But they don't get there.  As they run, they come upon a car wreck that has just happened and there are injured people.  Sara stops to examine them and see how badly they are hurt and Will tries to help survivors out.  But they both soon start to sense that this isn't just any car wreck.  They have come upon the perpetrators of the bomb and more than that, they are accompanied by a woman who was kidnapped in broad daylight a month ago.  Before Will can react, the men kidnap Sara and leave Will on the side of the road, badly beaten.

In the hours afterward, things become a bit clearer.  Sara has been kidnapped by a white supremist group who is apparently planning something big to spread their message.  The other woman worked at the CDC and it is unclear if she was kidnapped for her knowledge.  All Will knows is that the woman he loves is gone and he didn't stop it.  Now he will do anything to get her back including going undercover with the group and risking his own life.

This is the ninth novel in the Will Trent series.  Readers who follow the series have probably already fallen in love with Will and want nothing more for him than some happiness.  Sara is what brings him that and it is nerve-wracking to read and wonder if this will be the story that rips the two apart forever.  This book is recommended for mystery readers.