Karin Slaughter

Twenty years ago Claire Scott's eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went - no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart. Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one. Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked. But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same...

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda’s career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life—and it involves the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. Now these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed.

Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind. Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father—Pikeville's notorious defense attorney—devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, Charlotte has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself—the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again, and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized, Charlotte is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but it's a case that unleashes the terrible memories she's spent so long trying to suppress--because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won't stay buried forever. Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.

After that night, nothing was ever the same again Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper's assault is uncannily linked to Sara's. And it seems the past isn't going to stay buried forever.

From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem. This electrifying eBook novella featuring Will Trent is a prequel to Slaughter’s upcoming novel, Unseen.   Detective Will Trent is standing in a Georgia convenience store, waiting on an obstinate Icee frozen drink machine. To the surveillance cameras and bored staff of the Lil’ Dixie Gas-n-Go, however, Will appears to be someone very different—the menacing ex-con Bill Black. Going undercover as Bill, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent is about to infiltrate the most corrupt town in the most corrupt county in the new American South. But first: his Icee.   Everything changes in one horrific instant, as all hell breaks loose at the Lil’ Dixie. A cop is shot. A bag of cash goes flying across the floor. A young woman disappears while a killer takes off in a battered pick-up truck. Within seconds, Will is in pursuit.  Includes an exclusive preview of Karin Slaughter’s thrilling new novel of suspense, Unseen.

The fantastic prequel to The Good Daughter, the stunning new standalone from the No. 1 bestselling author of the Will Trent and Grant County series. Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home – and after that shocking night, Charlie's world was never the same. Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it her mission to defend those with no one else to turn to. So when Flora Faulkner, a motherless teen, begs for help, Charlie is reminded of her own past, and is powerless to say no. But honour-student Flora is in far deeper trouble than Charlie could ever have anticipated. Soon she must ask herself: How far should she go to protect her client? And can she truly believe everything she is being told?

What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all . . . ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she’s spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she’s never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she’s never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don’t we? But all that changes when a trip to the mall explodes into violence and Andrea suddenly sees a completely different side to Laura. Because it turns out that before Laura was Laura, she was someone completely different. For nearly thirty years she’s been hiding from her previous identity, lying low in the hope that no one would ever find her. But now she’s been exposed, and nothing will ever be the same again. The police want answers and Laura’s innocence is on the line, but she won’t speak to anyone, including her own daughter. Andrea is on a desperate journey following the breadcrumb trail of her mother’s past. And if she can’t uncover the secrets hidden there, there may be no future for either one of them. . . .

The New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Last Widow returns with another electrifying Will Trent thriller. Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder. Only days ago, another young woman was viciously murdered in a state park in northern Georgia. Is it a fluke, or could there be a serial killer on the loose? As Will Trent digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the cold case in order to find the answer. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear, and lies to become truth. But Will can’t crack either mystery without the help of the one person he doesn’t want involved: his girlfriend and Jeffrey Tolliver’s widow, medical examiner Sara Linton. When the past and present begin to collide, Will realizes that everything he values is at stake . . .

Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Broken features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . . When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death. He doesn’t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn’t understand her role in the death of Grant County’s popular police chief. He doesn’t understand why that man’s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case. While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she’s already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton’s passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver’s death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets—and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed. Spellbinding and keenly paced, Broken is Karin Slaughter at her best. Here is an unforgettable story of raw emotions, dangerous assumptions, the deadly and layered game of betrayal, and a man’s determination to expose the most painful of human truths—no matter how deeply they’re hidden . . . or how devastating.

AN ORDINARY LIFE Leigh Coulton has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defence attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilised - her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence. BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP Then a case lands on her desk - defending a wealthy man accused of rape. It's the highest profile case she's ever been given - a case which could transform her career, if she wins. But when she meets the accused, she realises that it's no coincidence that he's chosen her as his attorney. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he knows what happened twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades running. AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT If she can't get him acquitted, she'll lose much more than the case. The only person who can help her is her younger, estranged sister Calli, the last person Leigh would ever want to ask for help. But suddenly she has no choice...

The next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and After That Night! Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer… A secluded cabin retreat For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night. A murderer in their midst Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain. But as Will and Sara investigate the McAlpine family and the other guests, they realize that everyone here is lying….Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves. Who killed Mercy McAlpine? It soon becomes clear that normal rules don’t apply at McAlpine Lodge, and Will and Sara are going to have to watch their step at every turn. Trapped on the resort, they must untangle a decades-old web of secrets to discover what happened to Mercy. And with the killer poised to strike again, the trip of a lifetime becomes a race against the clock…

From New York Times bestselling authors Karin Slaughter and Lee Child comes this electrifying short story featuring their iconic characters Will Trent and Jack Reacher. Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His suspect’s name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene. But there’s a bigger conspiracy at play—one that neither the special agent nor the ex-military cop could have anticipated. And the only option is for Jack Reacher and Will Trent to team up and play nicely. If they can…

A missing girl in the news reminds Julia Carroll of herself: nineteen, beautiful, blonde hair, blue eyes. Julia begins to dig deeper and plans an article for her college paper. She becomes gradually more obsessed with the case, never imagining how close she herself is to danger. Includes an extract from Karin Slaughter’s gripping new novel, Pretty Girls.

A gripping, action-packed short story available only as an eBook—from a master of character, crime, and urgent suspense. Will Trent, a dedicated agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for fifteen years, knows that there’s definitely such a thing as a cop’s intuition. Which is why he should have listened to his own.  While in an airport restroom at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, Will overhears a girl’s pleading, plaintive voice: “Please, I wanna go home.” Something isn’t right here, thinks Will. He feels it in his gut. But he waits too long to act, and now the girl and the anxious, angry man she’s with have disappeared into the crowds at the busiest passenger airport in the world.  After a desperate search and with time running out, Will makes a call to his supervisor, Amanda Wagner. Will’s partner, Faith Mitchell, immediately sends out an abducted child alert. The entire airport will soon be grinding to a halt: Almost 100 million passengers a year. Five runways. Seven concourses. Six million square feet of space that sprawled across two counties, three cities, and five jurisdictions. All shut down on a dime because Will has a hunch that he is certain is true: a girl, maybe six or seven years old, has been snatched from God knows where. And he intends to bring her back—no matter what it takes. Includes an exclusive excerpt from Karin Slaughter’s thrilling new novel of suspense, Criminal. PRAISE FOR THE CRIME FICTION OF KARIN SLAUGHTER  “Karin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America.”—The Washington Post  “Crime fiction at its finest.”—Michael Connelly “An absolute master.”—Chicago Tribune “Slaughter writes with a razor. . . . Better than Cornwell can ever hope to be.”—The Plain Dealer “Slaughter will have you on the edge of your seat.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer “One of the boldest thriller writers working today.”—Tess Gerritsen  “Move over, Catherine Coulter—Slaughter may be today’s top female suspense writer.”—Library Journal (starred review)

The critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling master of suspense delivers her first stand-alone novel, a thrilling tale of crime and struggle set in Atlanta in the mid-1970s.Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job, and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out to be a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, she'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her own ax to grind (and a brother and uncle already on the force)--a strategy meant to isolate Kate and Maggie from the action. But the move will backfire, putting them right at the heart of it.Cop Town is an incredibly atmospheric nail-biter from the author the Huffington Post called an "exemplary storyteller" and "one of the great talents of the twenty-first century."

The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods–then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. For them, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and draw dozens of life into the case.For as Jeffrey and Sara move further down a trail of shocking surprises and hidden passions, neither is prepared for the most stunning discovery of all: the identity of a killer who is more evil and dangerous than anyone could have guessed.

An officer is shot point blank in the police station lobby and sheriff Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. It’s up to Lena Adams and Frank. Going back and forth between present and past, the narrative takes place in two time frames: present and ten years prior to the shooting. The “present” narration evolves over several hours; the “past” takes place over the course of a week. Lena will primarily get the present narration, working outside the station with Frank trying to figure out who the shooter is and how to resolve the hostage situation. Inside the station, Jeffrey has not been fatally wounded, but Sara knows he could easily die if the bleeding is not stopped. He drifts in and out of consciousness and through Sara and Jeffrey we get the past, and the case that leads up to the present day shooting.

The third pulse-pounding novel in the Grant County series from New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter.Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues -- and the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal -- but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up.Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara, the violence strikes far too close to home. And as Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer, he discovers that ex-police detective Lena Adams, now a security guard on campus, may be in possession of crucial information. But, bruised and angered by her expulsion from the force, Lena seems to be barely capable of protecting herself, let alone saving the next victim...

When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim.

When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever. When the local police make a misjudgement which not only threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in danger, the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - paired with detective Faith Mitchell, a woman who resents him from their first meeting. But in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer, Will and Faith realise that they must work together to find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest, most privileged communities - before it's too late...

A small town hides a big secret… Who killed Emily Vaughn? Prom Night. Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn dresses carefully for what's supposed to be the highlight of any high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the night, because of that secret, she will be dead. Nearly forty years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a US Marshal, receives her first assignment: to go to Longbill Beach to protect a judge receiving death threats. But Andrea's real focus isn't the judge – it's Emily Vaughn. Ever since she first heard Emily's name a year ago, she's been haunted by her brutal death. Nobody was ever convicted – her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on – so the killer is still out there. But now Andrea has a chance to find out what really happened…

In the city of Atlanta, women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread—and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael's lover before she became his enemy. But another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer's trail in the most coincidental of ways—someone who may be the key to breaking the case wide open...

“You know what we’re here for. Hand it over, and we’ll let her go.” There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother. . . . Faith is left with too many questions and not enough answers. To find her mother, she’ll need the help of her partner, Will Trent, and they’ll both need the help of trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isn’t just a cop anymore—she’s a witness. She’s also a suspect. The thin blue line hides police corruption, bribery, even murder. Faith will have to go up against the people she respects the most in order to find her mother and bring the truth to light—or bury it forever.

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found. Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the city’s most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the world’s most expensive lawyers—a man who’s already gotten away with rape, despite Will’s exhaustive efforts to put him away. But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Will’s troubled past to the case . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friends—and even the suspects he pursues. Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thriller -- a searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.   

Levensechte personages en bloedstollende spanning: deel 5 in de Grant County-reeks met Sara Linton in de hoofdrol. Een wandeling in de bossen neemt een sinistere wending als Jeffrey Tolliver en Sara Linton op het lichaam van een meisje stuiten. Ze ziet eruit alsof ze zich letterlijk is doodgeschrokken. Als Sara het lichaam onderzoekt, ontdekt ze iets gruwelijks, iets wat zelfs haar angst aanjaagt. Rechercheur Lena Adams wordt van vakantie teruggeroepen om met het onderzoek te helpen. Al snel leidt het spoor naar een naburige plaats, een geïsoleerde gemeenschap en een huiveringwekkend geheim. ‘Topthriller: een knappe, zeer onverwachte ontknoping. Het verhaal is meer dan spannend en de karakters hebben diepgang.’ Crimezone ‘Razend spannend.’ NRC Handelsblad

Een gewelddadige gijzeling houdt de inwoners van Grant County in zijn greep. Kinderarts Sara Linton en haar ex-man Jeffrey Tolliver bevinden zich onder de gegijzelden. Is rechercheur Lena Adams wel de aangewezen persoon om dit drama tot een goed einde te brengen? Houdt de gijzeling verband met mysterieuze gebeurtenissen uit het verleden? Heeft Jeffrey duistere kanten die zelfs Sara niet kent?

Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton -- the town's pediatrician and medical examiner-- finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self-mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn. The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, detective Lena Adams, still recovering from her sister's death and her own brutal attack, finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers. But unless Lena, Sara, and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again...

In het slaapstadje Grant County ontstaat onrust als een jonge lerares wordt verkracht en vermoord. De vrouw wordt gevonden door Sara Linton, de plaatselijke kinderarts en lijkschouwer. Samen met politiecommissaris Jeffrey Tolliver, haar grote liefde van vroeger met wie ze op gespannen voet staat, probeert ze het mysterie van de moord op te lossen. Intussen verricht ook Lena, de zus van het slachtoffer, op eigen houtje naspeuringen. Dan dient het volgende slachtoffer zich aan...

Ze dachten ermee weg te komen… Ze hadden het mis. Leigh en haar zus Callie zijn geen slechte mensen, maar op een avond meer dan twintig jaar geleden hebben ze iets vreselijks gedaan. Het resulteerde in een leven dat getekend werd door schuldgevoelens, verraad en geheimen. Jaren later heeft Leigh, inmiddels werkzaam bij een succesvol advocatenkantoor, de herinneringen aan die avond verdrongen. Tot ze tegen haar wil gedwongen wordt om een nieuwe cliënt aan te nemen en de grond onder haar voeten wegvalt. Want de man weet wat er destijds is gebeurd. Hij weet wat Leigh en Callie hebben gedaan. En tenzij ze hem stoppen, zal hij hun levens verwoesten…

Andrea Cooper kent haar moeder door en door. Ze weet dat Laura een onopvallend maar tevreden bestaan leidt en nooit iets voor haar verborgen zou houden. Maar wanneer het restaurant waar Andrea en Laura elke week lunchen onder vuur wordt genomen en een doodgewone middag verandert in een bloedbad, ziet Andrea een heel andere kant van haar. Een kant die mijlenver verwijderd is van de kalme zachtmoedigheid die ze van haar moeder kent. De koelbloedigheid waarmee Laura de schutter overmeestert en doodt, verbijstert Andrea. Dan blijkt dat de schutter het op haar moeder gemunt had. De politie wil weten waarom, maar Laura weigert elke medewerking. Ze vraagt Andrea zelfs om haar te helpen allerlei sporen uit te wissen. Zo ontdekt Andrea dat haar moeder zich al dertig jaar schuilhoudt onder een andere naam en dat alles wat ze over haar verleden heeft verteld gelogen is. Wat heeft Laura op haar geweten? Waarom zien anderen haar liever dood dan levend? En kun je iemand nog vertrouwen als die een volslagen vreemde blijkt te zijn – ook als diegene je moeder is?

De Queen of Crime is terug! Waarom we logen van Karin Slaughter is een zinderende en ingenieuze topthriller met Will Trent en Sara Linton in de hoofdrol. Diep verscholen in de Appalachen ligt de McAlpine Family Lodge, waar special agent Will Trent en patholoog-anatoom Sara Linton hun huwelijks reis doorbrengen. Het resort is een afgelegen paradijs op aarde, ware het niet dat iedereen in de familie McAlpine liegt. Ze liegen over het verleden. Ze liegen over het heden. Ze liegen tegen zichzelf. Op een middag dreigt de anders zo meegaande dochter Mercy ieders geheimen te onthullen, en aan het eind van de dag is ze dood. Wat voor Will en Sara de vakantie van hun leven had moeten worden, verandert in een race tegen de klok. Want alles wijst erop dat iemand de waarheid koste wat kost verborgen wil houden…

First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes revenge. In this sensational short story from the bestselling author of The Kept Woman and Pretty Girls, fifty-two-year-old Pam has done her utmost as a loyal wife to her now ex-husband John. He dropped her cruelly . . . but with a terminal illness about to claim his life, Pam now sees an opportunity to settle the score, in a way that no one—not their children, not her ex, and certainly not the reader—will see coming . . . Surprising, suspenseful, and diabolically clever, Cold, Cold Heart offers old fans and new readers alike a taste of the writer Gillian Flynn calls “one of the finest crime novelists at work today.”

When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim.

"Son los prodigiosos talentos de Slaughter para crear personajes lo que la hace sobresalir entre los escritores de suspenso". -- Washington Post De la autora del bestseller del New York Times, Pieces of her, llega un impresionante thriller que presenta la reci�n nombrada Mariscal de los Estados Unidos, Andrea Oliver, mientras investiga un caso sin resolver vinculado con el pasado de su padre. Un pueblo peque�o esconde un secreto grande... �Qui�n mat� a Emily Vaughn? Una chica con un secreto... Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn se prepara para su baile graduaci�n. Para una atleta, que es lista, bonita y muy querida, esta noche deber�a ser lo m�s memorable de su tiempo en la preparatoria. Pero Emily tiene un secreto. Y hacia el final de la noche, ese secreto ser� silenciado para siempre. Un asesinato sin resolver... Cuarenta a�os despu�s, la muerte de Emily sigue siendo un misterio. Su grupo de amigos m�s cercanos cerr� filas; su respetada y acaudalada familia retrocedi�; el peque�o pueblo dej� atr�s su siniestro ataque. Pero todo est� a punto de cambiar. Una �ltima oportunidad de descubrir a un asesino... La Mariscal estadounidense llega a Longbill Beach en su primer encargo: proteger a un juez que est� recibiendo amenazas de muerte. Pero, en realidad, Andrea est� all� para encontrar justicia para Emily. El asesino todav�a sigue libre, y Andrea debe descubrir la verdad antes de que ella sea, tambi�n, silenciada... "It's Slaughter's prodigious gifts of characterization that make her stand out among thriller writers." -- Washington Post From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshal Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father's past. A small town hides a big secret... Who killed Emily Vaughn? A girl with a secret... Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever. An unsolved murder... Forty years later, Emily's murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her grisly attack. But all that's about to change. One final chance to uncover a killer... US Marshal Andrea Oliver arrives in Longbill Beach on her first assignment: to protect a judge receiving death threats. But, in reality, Andrea is there to find justice for Emily. The killer is still out there--and Andrea must discover the truth before she gets silenced, too...

This is the third Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta's Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit by a car but, naked and brutalized, it's clear that she has been the prey of a twisted mind. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber buried deep beneath the earth. And this hidden house of horror reveals a ghastly truth - Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer. Wrestling the case away from the local police chief, Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt. And Sara, Will and Faith - each with their own wounds and their own secrets - are all that stand between a madman and his next crime...

Length: 20 minutes. She was 14 when she watched mother die. With her mother gone, her father told her she had to be the woman of the house. And then he went away for six months. Now she's got a surprise for him. This short story by New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter is taken from the exclusive audiobook collection The Unremarkable Heart and Other Stories.

Wanneer op het nieuws melding wordt gemaakt van een vermist meisje, moet Claire Scott ongewild terugdenken aan haar eigen zusje. Zij verdween twintig jaar geleden, en het mysterie is nooit opgelost. Maar wanneer Claire alsnog de waarheid over de verdwijning van haar zus ontdekt, zal haar leven nooit meer hetzelfde zijn.

Detective Lena Adams ligt met verwondingen in een vervallen ziekenhuis in Georgia en is de enige getuige van een wrede moord waarbij een vrouw onherkenbaar werd verminkt. Honderdvijftig kilometer verderop hoort haar baas Jeffrey Tolliver dat Lena is gearresteerd. Zijn vrouw – kinderarts en lijkschouwer Sara Linton – heeft haar handen vol aan haar eigen problemen nadat ze is aangeklaagd voor nalatigheid, maar werkt desondanks mee aan de bizarre en gruwelijke moordzaak. Lena was een aantal dagen eerder teruggekeerd naar de plek waar ze te midden van racisme, woede en moord was opgegroeid. Ze belandde daarbij opnieuw in handen van haar gewelddadige ex-vriend, een neonazi die haar nu zelfs vanuit de gevangenis nog in zijn macht houdt. Uiteindelijk zijn Jeffrey en Sara de enigen die Lena kunnen bevrijden uit het web van leugens en geweld waarin ze verstrikt is geraakt.

Op de campus van een universiteit vinden enkele studenten onder mysterieuze omstandigheden de dood. Terwijl kinderarts en lijkschouwer Sara Linton het eerste lichaam onderzoekt, wordt haar zus Tessa aangevallen. Sara s ex-man Jeffrey Tolliver leidt het onderzoek, maar oud-rechercheur Lena Adams verricht haar eigen speurwerk en begeeft zich daarbij op gevaarlijk terrein.

Vijftien jaar geleden werd Sara Lintons leven volledig op zijn kop gezet toen een feestelijk avondje uit in een gewelddadige aanval eindigde, die haar wereld uiteen deed spatten. Jaren later is ze erin geslaagd haar leven weer op te bouwen. Ze is een succesvol arts, verloofd met een man van wie ze zielsveel houdt en heeft het verleden achter zich gelaten. Tot ze tijdens een nachtdienst op de spoedeisende hulp de zwaargewonde Dani Cooper treft met letsel dat akelig veel overeenkomsten vertoont met dat van haarzelf destijds. Ook het leven van deze jonge vrouw is op gruwelijke wijze in één klap veranderd. Sara beseft dat het verleden niet voor altijd begraven blijft...

Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?

اجتهدت لييه كولير في حياتها العلمية والعملية إلى أن بنت ما بدا وكأنه حياة طبيعية، فلديها وظيفة مرموقة كمحامية دفاع وابنة متفوقة في المدرسة وعلاقتها بطليقها على درجة كبيرة من التفاهم.. كانت حياتها عادية كما كانت تأمل دومًا. لكن حياة لييه الطبيعية تلك تخفي ورائها مرحلة طفولة أبعد ما تكون عن الحياة العادية.. طفولة ملطخة بأسرار شنيعة وحطمتها الخيانة وفي النهاية مزقت إربًا بسبب جريمة عنيفة ومدمرة. ومن حيث لا تدري كلفت بقضية من أحد الموكلين، ومطلوب منها الدفاع عن رجل ثري متهم بالاغتصاب. وهي قضية حساسة ومن أهم القضايا التي كلفت بها، قضية يمكن أن تنتقل بحياتها المهنية إلى درجة رفيعة إن ربحتها. لكن عندما تلتقي بالمدعى عليه، تدرك إنه لا توجد مصادفة في اختياره لها لتصبح محاميته. إنها تعرفه، وهو يعرفها، والأهم إنه يعرف ما حدث منذ عشرين عامًا، ولماذا أمضت لييه العقدين المنصرمين في فرار من الماضي. لو لم تبرؤه فستفوق خسارتها تلك القضية، والإنسانة الوحيدة التي يمكنها المساعدة هي اختها المنبوذة كالي، وهي آخر من يمكن أن تلجأ إليه لييه طلبًا للمساعدة، لكن فجأة لا يصبح أمامها أي خيار.

Karin Slaughter, autora aclamada internacionalmente, regresa con un thriller psicológico sofisticado y escalofriante en el que, mezclando turbios secretos, fría venganza y una inesperada posibilidad de absolución, nos presenta a dos hermanas que, tras haber perdido el contacto, han de unir fuerzas para desvelar la verdad acerca de las espantosas tragedias que, separadas por veinte años, destrozaron sus vidas. Hermanas. Desconocidas. Supervivientes. Han pasado más de dos décadas desde que Julia, la hermana mayor de Claire y Lydia, desapareció sin dejar rastro a los 19 años. Algún tiempo después, ellas dejaron de hablarse y tomaron caminos opuestos. Claire se había convertido en la decorativa y ociosa esposa de un millonario de Atlanta. Lydia, madre soltera, salía con un expresidiario y se esforzaba por llegar a fin de mes. Ninguna de las dos, sin embargo, se había recuperado del horror y la tristeza de su tragedia compartida: una herida atroz que se reabrió cruelmente al morir asesinado el marido de Claire. La desaparición de una joven y el asesinato de un hombre de mediana edad, separados casi por un cuarto de siglo. ¿Qué relación podía haber entre ambos hechos? Tras alcanzar una tregua precaria, las hermanas supervivientes miraron al pasado en busca de la verdad y comenzaron a desenterrar los secretos que destruyeron a su familia y a descubrir una posibilidad de redención y venganza allí donde menos lo esperaban. Potente, turbador y absorbente, provisto de personajes inolvidables y de giros asombrosos, Flores cortadas es un thriller magistral de una de las mejores escritoras de suspense del panorama literario actual.

Podía haber sucedido cualquier noche, y podían haber sido dos hermanos cualesquiera, pero no fue cualquier noche ni cualquier pareja de hermanos. Nos encontramos en el bar Atlanta. La música atruena y la pista de baile está llena de gente. El hermano atractivo elige a una chica. Pero cuando las oscuras acciones se desarrollan en el aparcamiento, lo que sucede después solo se puede describir con dos palabras: masacre clásica. Desde la escena inicial hasta la última línea, Una espina en mi costado es tan perverso como entretenido, una obra inolvidable de una de las escritoras más queridas de la narrativa actual.

Andrea Cooper sabe todo de su madre Laura. Sabe que ha pasado toda su vida en la pequeña ciudad costera de Belle Isle; sabe que jamás le ha guardado un secreto. Porqué todos sabemos todo de nuestras madres, ¿no?Todo cambia cuando una visita al centro comercial se convierte en un baño de sangre y Andrea ve una faceta completamente desconocida de Laura. Porque parece que, antes de que Laura fuera Laura, era una persona completamente distinta. Durante treinta años ha estado escondiendo su anterior identidad, con un perfil bajo con la esperanza de que nadie pudiera encontrarla. Pero ahora está expuesta y nada volverá a ser lo mismo nunca más.La policía quiere respuestas y la inocencia de Laura está comprometida, pero no va a hablar con nadie, ni siquiera con su propia hija. Andrea tendrá que emprender un viaje desesperado siguiendo las sutiles huellas del pasado de su madre. Y si no consigue desvelar los secretos que se esconden puede que no haya futuro para ninguna de las dos."Karin Slaughter y La buena hija: lenguaje de vuelo nada gallináceo, diálogos con sentido, excelente psicología de personajes y una estructura narrativa compleja bien resuelta"Carlos Zanón, El País sobre La buena hija"La oscuridad y el pasado están muy presentes en este escalofriante thriller. Karin Slaughter, desde el corazón y con todo su talento, te atrapa desde la primera hasta la última página".Camilla Läckberg sobre La buena hija"Sin despreciar un realismo inquietante a la hora de describir los momentos más escabrosos, Slaughter combina los desgarros del horror con las penas que arrastran sus personajes. Una novela que obliga a pasar páginas sin mirar la hora".Tino Pertierra, La Nueva España sobre La buena hija"La mujer oculta es una buena novela negra, bien construida, con unos personajes muy potentes y una resolución redonda. La recomiendo".Libros que hay que leer sobre La mujer oculta"Encontraréis una novela llena de tramas, relaciones personales turbadoras y sorpresas varias, que acaba enganchándote irremediablemente".Anika entre libros sobre La mujer oculta"Son tan potentes sus intrigas, atractivos por su fealdad los personajes, que la intensidad se apodera del lector".Lluís Fernández, La Razón, sobre La mujer oculta"Con una prosa sofisticada y escalofriante, Slaugther nos acerca a la historia de dos hermanas que, tras veinte años separadas, vuelven a reunirse para investigar un misterio".Telva sobre Flores cortadas

Collected in one volume-and on audio-for the first time, The Unremarkable Heart and Other Stories features bestselling author Karin Slaughter at her best: dark, provocative explorations of love, death, and the secrets we keep. This exclusive audiobook contains the previously published tales The Unremarkable Heart, The Blessing of Brokenness, Necessary Women, The Mean Time, Cold Cold Heart, and the never-before-seen story The Truth About Pretty Girls. ©2012 Karin Slaugher. All rights reserved. (P)2012 AudioGo

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. A devastating explosion One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhood’s has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC. A diabolical enemy Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.

Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring Special Agent Will Trent are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil. Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around Macon, Georgia, and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But undercover and cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him. Although she has no idea where Will has gone, or why, Sara herself has come to Macon because of a cop shooting: Her stepson, Jared, has been gunned down in his own home. Sara holds Lena, Jared’s wife, responsible: Lena, a detective, has been a magnet for trouble all her life, and Jared’s shooting is not the first time someone Sara loved got caught in the crossfire. Furious, Sara finds herself involved in the same case that Will is working without even knowing it, and soon danger is swirling around both of them. In a novel of fierce intensity, shifting allegiances, and shocking twists, two investigations collide with a conspiracy straddling both sides of the law. Karin Slaughter’s latest is both an electrifying thriller and a piercing study of human nature: what happens when good people face the unseen evils in their lives.

Sara Linton--resident medical examiner/pediatrician in Grant County, Georgia, --has plenty of hardship to deal with, including defending herself in a heartbreaking malpractice suit. So when her husband, Police chief Jeffery Tolliver, learns that his friend and coworker detective Lena Adams has been arrested for murder and needs Sara's help, she is not sure she can handle the pressure of it all. But soon Sara and Jeffery are sitting through evidence, peeling back the layers of a mystery that grows darker by the day--until an intricate web of betrayal and vengeance begins to unravel. And suddenly the lives of Sara, Lena, and Jeffery are hanging by the slenderest of threads.

Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton--the town's pediatrician and medical examiner--finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self -mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn. The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, detective Lena Adams, still recovering from her sister's death and her own brutal attack, finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers. But unless Lena, Sara, and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again . . .

From New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter, the first novel in her acclaimed Grant County series. A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer’s twisted work becomes clear. Sara’s ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation—a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he’s got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, because the county’s only female detective, Lena Adams—the first victim’s sister—wants to serve her own justice. But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath… or mean her death.