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
Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her 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, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror.
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...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Forty years. Two chillingly similar cases. One good man’s deepest secrets. This “hold-on-to-your hat, nail-biting story” is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder from “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). “Criminal is [Karin] Slaughter at her most visceral and gut-wrenching best.”—HuffPost WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC • This edition includes the short story “Snatched” and an excerpt of Unseen, a Will Trent novel 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 why—until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage. 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. Now these two dauntless investigators must each face down demons from the past . . . or risk unleashing an even greater terror.
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.
The Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller! The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter, featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton
He watches. 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. He waits. 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. He takes. 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.
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! Will Trent and Sara Linton are back! This is the 11th electrifying thriller featuring GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton from New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter. 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 ...
In this gripping Karin Slaughter thriller, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton's honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge turns deadly when manager Mercy McAlpine is found murdered. Trapped by a storm, they must navigate a web of lies among suspicious guests to uncover the killer before it's too late.
Get ready for a turbo-charged short read (80 pages) from two of the world's biggest thriller writers - Karin Slaughter and Lee Child.
