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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

Leigh doesn’t like to talk about her sister. About the night that tore them apart. About what they did. But someone else is about to....

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.

Da en ung kvinde findes død under isen, indikerer en seddel efterladt under en sten på søbredden, at der er tale om selvmord. Men allerede efter få minutter står det klart, at det ikke er tilfældet. Det er et brutalt, koldblodigt mord. Retsmediciner Sara Linton og specialagent Will Trent kommer på et usædvanligt opklaringsarbejde, som ikke bliver nemmere af, at sagens hovedmistænkte kort efter findes død...

En alvorligt såret kvinde bringes til skadestuen. Kvinden er blevet ramt af en bil, men eftersom hun er nøgen og har været udsat for brutal vold, står det hurtigt klart, at hun har været offer for en person med et yderst forskruet sind. Tre år tidligere flyttede restmediciner Sara Linton til Atlanta i håb om at lade sine tragiske fortid bag sig. Nu arbejder hun som læge og forsøger samtidig at få sit liv tilbage på rette spor. Men da den brutalt sårede kvinde bringes ind på skadestuen, bliver Sara ufrivilligt trukket tilbage til den verden af vold og mord, som hun havde forladt.

Wir alle kennen unsere Mütter. Oder etwa nicht? Wieder und wieder sieht Andrea Oliver das Gesicht ihrer Mutter Laura vor sich: gelöst, gutmütig, beherrscht - während sie einem Menschen das Leben nimmt. Nur knapp konnten sie beide einer grauenvollen Schießerei entkommen. Andrea will Antworten, doch stattdessen zwingt ihre Mutter sie in eine riskante Flucht. Weil sie verfolgt wird. Weil sie ein dunkles Geheimnis hat. Andrea folgt dem Befehl ihrer Mutter. Doch je weiter sich ihr die wahre Identität dieser Frau enthüllt, desto mehr entpuppt sich ihr Leben als eine Lüge. Wer ist ihre Mutter wirklich?

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear.

In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station, and Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies.

Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, 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 keen to avoid a scandal - but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up.

They've been targeted. And it seems the past is catching up with both of them. Twelve years earlier, a straightforward weekend at the beach becomes a nightmare for Sara and Jeffrey. While visiting Jeffrey's hometown, they are first on the scene when Jeffrey's best friend Robert shoots dead an intruder who has broken into his home. Jeffrey is keen to clear his friend's name, but the facts don't tally with Robert's story. Soon, Sara doesn't know who to trust.

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, impeccably dressed young woman. And for Sara and Jeffrey, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and draw dozens of lives into the case.

Ein brutaler Mord. Eine Blutspur ins Nichts. Eine verhängnisvolle Waffe. Es ist der persönlichste Fall in Will Trents Laufbahn. Das spürt der Ermittler schon in dem Moment, als er das leerstehende Lagerhaus betritt und die Leiche entdeckt - die Leiche eines Ex-Cops. Blutige Fußabdrücke weisen auf ein zweites Opfer hin. Eine Frau. Von ihr fehlt jede Spur. Das Brisante: Gegen den prominenten Eigentümer des Lagerhauses ermittelt Will bereits seit einem halben Jahr wegen Vergewaltigung. Erfolglos!

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.

A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl. Incarcerated in the ground, all the initial evidence indicates that she has, quite literally, been scared to death. But as Sara embarks on the autopsy, something even more horrifying comes to light. Something which shocks even Sara.

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....

Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. In the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare hands. Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is here only to do a political favor; the murder site belongs to the Atlanta police. But Trent soon sees something the cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the shell-shocked mother.

What seemed at first to be a horrific 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.

Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to escape her past. She has only unhappy memories of Reece, the small town that nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away. But nothing could prepare her for the violence that explodes when she is forced to return. A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. And Lena is the only suspect.

When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever. Now, in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer, Special Agent Will Trent must find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest, most privileged communities - before it's too late...

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.