True Evil by Greg Iles

Started 10/30/07
Finished: 11/11/07
Year: 2006
Pages: 512
Genre: Thriller
Grade: B
Reason for reading: grabbed it off the TBR shelf
Blurb (from back cover): "Dr. Chris Shepard is thirty-six years old, newly married, and well on his way to a perfect life. Or so he believes. But that future is forever cast into doubt the day Special Agent Alexandra Morse walks into his office and drops a bombshell: Dr. Shepard's beautiful new wife is plotting his murder. Shepard is so shocked that he almost throws Agent Morse out of his office. Yet once he is alone, doubt begins to gnaw at him. Paranoia magnifies the small cracks in his marital relationship, and soon he can have no peace unless he knows he truth. When Agent Morse reappears, Chris agrees to act as bait to help her unravel the divorce lawyer's scheme, which may already have cost nine unsuspecting spouses their lives.
"At the center of the mystery lies a maddeningly simple question: If these people realy were murdered, why can't the FBI prove it? Rigorous autopsies have uncovered no forensic evidence of foul play, and the police believe no crimes have occurred. As Dr. Shepard and Agent Morse struggle against an invisible adversary, Shepard realizes that he's working with a desperate woman. The reason: the killer's last known victim was Alex Morses's sister, who from her deathbed accused her husband of murder and extracted a vow tht Alex save her ten-year-old nephew from his father. This has driven Alex to risk both her life and career to fulfill that vow. But Chris Shepard soon feels desperaation of his own. As he probes his wife's hidden past, he is confronted by the probability that the woman he loves wants him dead.
"He has adopted her son and given her everything he has to give, and yet somewhere out there, a killer with the brilliance to outwit the top forensic scientists in the world is closing in on him.
"Who is this merciless assassin? Why is murder an art form for him? And what clues could exist to lead them to a man of such twisted talents? Not even the clients who hire him know his identity, and the lawyer who works with him fears him above all else. Most terrifing, those who choose murder over divorce soon learn a terrible truth: once set in motion, the instrument of their anger cannot be stopped."
Opinion: Another nail bitter by Greg Iles. Some of the relationship stuff was too unrealistic for me but luckily, did not take away from the great plot and action of the story.