Táto séria sleduje detektíva Willa Trenta a jeho partnerku, doktorku Saru Linton, ako sa snažia vyriešiť zložitú kriminalitu v Georgii. Príbehy sa zameriavajú na ich osobný život a traumy, ktoré ovplyvňujú ich prácu. Séria skúma témy spravodlivosti, obete a ľudskej psychológie. Každý prípad je jedinečný a odhaľuje temné stránky ľudskej povahy.
Troubled by a rocky marriage and the recent loss of his partner, Atlanta detective Michael Ormewood launches an investigation into the savage murder of a local woman, but for ex-con John Shelley, desperate to prove his innocence, the nightmare has just begun. Reprint.
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 latea
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.
Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton and Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Will Trent have their work cut out for them when the prime suspect in a shoreside murder winds up dead in his holding cell.
On an ordinary spring day, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding Faith's new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked in the shed, her mother's safe open, her gun missing and a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house to a scene of carnage. It has been torn apart and a man lies dead in a pool of blood. She stumbles across two more intruders, and within minutes they too are shot dead. And when the Atlanta police force turns up, Faith has some difficult questions to answer. But she has some desperate questions of her own. What were the killers searching for? Ex-Atlanta police chief Evelyn Mitchell was once under investigation by Faith's partner Will Trent. Is her mother directly involved this time, and where is she now? With Faith suspended from duty, Will, together with the help of Dr Sara Linton, must piece together the fragments of a brutal and complicated case - and catch a deeply troubled and vicious murderer with only one thing on his mind. To keep on killing until the truth is finally revealed...
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past.
The seventh Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide. Something he doesn't want Dr Sara Linton - the woman he loves - to find out. He's gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at risk. And he knows Sara will never forgive him if she discovers the truth. But when a young patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced to confront the past and a woman she hoped never to see again. And without even knowing it, she becomes involved in the same case Will is working on. Soon both of their lives are in danger.
Manželia a manželky. Matky a dcéry. Minulosť a budúcnosť. Tajomstvá ich spájajú. A tajomstvá ich môžu zničiť. Autorka knihy Pekné dievčatá sa vracia s pútavým, citovo spletitým trilerom, v ktorom sa šarmantný hlavný hrdina dostane do najtemnejších hlbín tajomstva, ktoré ho môže zničiť. Willa Trenta z Georgijského vyšetrovacieho úradu (GBI) privolajú k prípadu vraždy na opustenom stavenisku. Všetko sa skomplikuje, keď mŕtveho muža identifikujú ako bývalého policajta. Keď však Sara Lintonová – nová súdna lekárka GBI a Willova milenka – obhliadne telo, zistí, že obrovské množstvo krvi nájdené na mieste činu nepatrí mŕtvemu policajtovi. Krvavé stopy vedúce z miesta činu naznačujú, že môže ísť o ďalšiu obeť – ženu, ktorá zmizla... a ktorá zomrie, ak ju nenájdu včas. Will ťahá za kratší koniec, pretože stavba patrí najobľúbenejšiemu človeku v meste: bohatému a mocnému športovcovi s konexiami na tých najvyšších miestach – mužovi, ktorému napriek Willovej snahe prešlo znásilnenie. Keď však dôkazy spoja Willovu problematickú minulosť s prípadom, následky na seba nedajú dlho čakať a spôsobia v jeho živote, ako aj živote jeho blízkych vrátane kolegov, rodiny a priateľov a rovnako v živote podozrivých, ktorých prenasleduje – hotovú smršť.
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.
A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she has no reason to be afraid, but she's wrong. A predator is stalking the women of Grant County. He lingers in the shadows, until the time is just right to snatch his victim. A decade later, the case has been closed. The killer is behind bars. But then another young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead, and the MO is identical. Although the original trail has gone cold - memories have faded, witnesses have disappeared - agent Will Trent and forensic pathologist Sara Linton must re-open the cold case. But the clock is ticking, and the killer is determined to find his perfect silent wife.
After that night, nothing was ever the same againFifteen 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.
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 retreatFor 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 midstMercy 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…
Get ready for a turbo-charged short read (80 pages) from two of the world's biggest thriller writers - Karin Slaughter and Lee Child.
