This is Why We Lied (Will Trent, #12)

by Karin Slaughter

Strangulation was a giant red flag. At least that was what Mercy had read online. When a man put his hands around a woman’s neck, that woman was six times more likely to suffer serious violence or die by homicide.

Shitty men were like periods. Once you had your first one, your life was consumed by dread or panic over when it would show up again.

It took an abused woman an average of seven tries to leave her abuser, and that was if he didn’t kill her first.