Karin Slaughter

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Detectives, lovers, and enemies face off in an unforgettable battle between righteous courage and deepest evil, from "one of the best crime novelists in America" (The Washington Post). WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC - "Compelling . . . Slaughter balances a complex plot with believable twists while sensitively exploring her realistic characters' emotions and problems."--South Florida Sun-Sentinel Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, working undercover in Macon, Georgia, posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who 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 there's a problem. 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. Suddenly, without even knowing it, Sara finds herself involved in the same case that Will is working--with danger swirling around both of them. A novel of fierce intensity, shifting allegiances, and shocking twists, Unseen is an electrifying thriller and a piercing study of human nature: what happens when good people face the unseen evils in their lives.

Lee Child says it's "stunning... certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary... a major achievement." Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: "I'd follow her anywhere." Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss--a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.

With a missing girl in the news, Claire Scott can't help but be reminded of her sister, who disappeared twenty years ago in a mystery that was never solved. But when Claire begins to learn the truth about her sister, nothing will ever be the same.

"Karin Slaughter is simply one of the best thriller writers working today."--GILLIAN FLYNN "This chilling mystery is just begging to be read in one sitting."--Cosmopolitan WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC - This edition features an introduction on the origins of the New York Times bestselling Will Trent novels 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.

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."--HuffPostWATCH 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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A superior crime novel."--The Washington Post WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC Ansley Park is one of Atlanta's most upscale neighborhoods--but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager's lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her 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 one of the first on the scene. Trent soon sees something that the Atlanta cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the stunned mother. When another teenage girl goes missing, Trent knows that this case, which started in the best of homes, is about to cut quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.

La autora best seller n mero uno internacionalmente, Karin Slaughter, regresa con una novela sofisticada y escalofriante de peligrosos secretos, venganza y absoluci n inesperada, en la cual dos hermanas que han vivido separadas deben reunirse veinte a os despu s para descubrir la verdad acerca de dos desgarradoras tragedias que devastaron sus vidas. Hermanas. Extra as. Sobrevivientes. Hace m s de veinte a os, la hermana adolescente de Claire y Lydia, Julia, se desvaneci sin dejar rastro. Las dos hermanas no han hablado desde entonces, y ahora sus vidas no podr an ser m s diferentes. Claire es la glamurosa esposa trofeo de un millonario de Atlanta. Lydia, madre soltera, sale con un exconvicto y batalla por pagar todos los gastos mensuales. Pero ninguna de las dos se ha recuperado del horror y el sufrimiento de la p rdida que las une; una desgarradora herida que se abre cruelmente cuando matan al esposo de Claire. La desaparici n de una muchacha adolescente y el asesinato de un hombre de mediana edad, casi un cuarto de siglo despu s: qu podr a relacionarlos? Formando una cautelosa tregua, las hermanas sobrevivientes miran al pasado para encontrar la verdad, desenterrando los secretos que destruyeron su familia hace tantos a os... y abri ndose a la posibilidad de redenci n y venganza, donde menos la esperan. Poderosa, conmovedora y profundamente cautivadora, llena de personajes indelebles y giros inolvidables. Novela maestra de una de las mejores escritoras de suspenso en la actualidad.

Lee Child says it's "stunning... certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary... a major achievement." Jeffery Deaver says that "fiction doesn't get any better than this." Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: "I'd follow her anywhere." See for yourself what these #1 New York Times-bestselling authors are talking about. Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss--a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.--Tess Gerritsen

A gripping short story from the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her. A beautiful young girl was walking down the street―when suddenly... Julia Carroll knows that too many stories start that way. Beautiful, intelligent, a nineteen-year-old college freshman, she should be carefree. But instead she is frightened. Because girls are disappearing. A fellow student, Beatrice Oliver, is missing. A homeless woman called Mona-No-Name is missing. Both taken off the street. Both gone without a trace. Julia is determined to find out the reasons behind their disappearances. And she doesn't want to be next...

The fourth book in the Grant County series from Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her." A] page-turner . . . Slaughter's plot has more twists than a Slinky factory and the characters' relationships are sharply drawn."--People, starred review"Scary, shocking and perfectly suspenseful."--BookPageAn officer is shot point blank in the police station lobby and sherrif 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 one hour; 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 book in Karin Slaughter's acclaimed Grant County Series." A] page-turner . . . Slaughter's plot has more twists than a Slinky factory and the characters' relationships are sharply drawn."--People, starred review"Scary, shocking and perfectly suspenseful."--BookPage Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, GA, 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.

I'd follow her anywhere' Gillian Flynn Atlanta, 1974 As a brutal killing and a furious manhunt rock the city, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the police force will also be her last. Kate isn't the only woman on the force who is finding things tough.

The second book in the acclaimed Grant County Series from Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her." Karin Slaughter is a fearless writer. She takes us to the deep, dark places other novelists don't dare to go. Kisscut will cement her reputation as one of the boldest thriller writers working today."--Tess Gerritsen, author of The ApprenticeIn this chilling follow-up to Blindsighted, Sara Linton, her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and detective Lena Adams are caught in an evil web involving a young girl who commits suicide by forcing a cop to shoot her. Shouldering the political aftermath, Jeffrey struggles to understand the victim's desperation. So does Sara, the girl's pediatrician and now her coroner, who soon discovers that the suicide was linked to a brutal crime--one far more terrifying than anyone could have imagined. Yet neither Jeffrey nor Sara know that their colleague, Lena, may unwittingly harbor the truth as she finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers--and Lena's future--in his hands.

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.

Spesialagent Will Trent er forelsket og i ferd med å legge sin vanskelige fortid bak seg. Men så forsvinner en lokal student, og Will blir av en eller annen merkelig grunn holdt unna etterforskningen av sin sjef, Amanda Wagner. Will skjønner ikke Amandas motivasjon, før de to bokstavelig talt støter på hverandre i et forlatt barnehjem, som de begge har oppsøkt av helt forskjellige årsaker. Tiår tidligere – mens Wills far var fengslet for mord – var dette Wills hjem. Saken som innledet Amandas lange karriere dukker plutselig opp til overflaten igjen, flettet sammen med mysteriet om Wills fødsel og opphav.

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Karin Slaughter, author of thebestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as one of the best crime novelists in America ("The Washington Post"). Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a serial killer targeting cops, and a divided police force tasked with bringing a madman to justice. Atlanta, 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious manhunt rock the city s police department, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. She s determined to defy her privileged background by making her own way wearing a badge and carrying a gun. But for a beautiful young woman, life will be anything but easy in the macho world of the Atlanta PD, where even the female cops have little mercy for rookies. It s also the worst day possible to start given that a beloved cop has been gunned down, his brothers in blue are out for blood, and the city is on the edge of war. Kate isn t the only woman on the force who s feeling the heat. Maggie Lawson followed her uncle and brother into the ranks to prove her worth in their cynical eyes. When she and Kate, her new partner, are pushed out of the citywide search for a cop killer, their fury, pain, and pride finally reach the boiling point. With a killer poised to strike again, they will pursue their own line of investigation, risking everything as they venture into the city s darkest heart. Relentlessly paced, acutely observed, wickedly funny, and often heartbreaking, "Cop Town" is Karin Slaughter s most powerful novel yet a tour de force of storytelling from our foremost master of character, atmosphere, and suspense. Features a preview of Karin Slaughter s next novel, "Pretty Girls" "" Karin Slaughter is simply one of the best thriller writers working today, and"Cop Town"shows the author at the top of her game relentless pacing, complex characters, and gritty realism, all set against the backdrop of a city on the edge. Slaughter s eye for detail and truth is unmatched. . . . I d follow her anywhere. Gillian Flynn "Cop Town "proves Karin Slaughter is one of America s best writers. . . . She pulls her readers into a twisted tale of mystery and keeps them fascinated from start to finish. "The Huffington Post" Stunning . . . Karin Slaughter breaks new ground with this riveting story. If you haven t yet read her, this is the moment. Michael Connelly Compulsively readable . . . will have your heart racing. "O: The Oprah Magazine""" Intense . . . engrossing . . . evocative . . . Karin Slaughter s] first stand-alone novel has] a gritty, action-packed plot and strong, believable characters. Associated Press Slaughter graphically exposes the rampant racism, homophobia, and misogyny of cop culture in the 1970s. . . . Winning leads, the retro setting, and a riveting plot make this one of Slaughter s best. "Booklist "(starred review) Superb . . . explosive . . . "Cop Town"] is sure to win over readers new to Slaughter s work while reminding old fans of her enormous talent. "Library Journal "(starred review) Evocative writing . . . amazing characters . . . with edge-of-your-seat suspense and a riveting plot . . . Slaughter s first stand-alone book is a knockout. "RT Book Reviews""

Spesialagent Will Trent er i ferd med å legge sin vanskelige fortid bak seg. Så forsvinner en lokal student, og Will holdes unna etterforskningen av sin sjef, Amanda Wagner. Will skjønner ikke Amandas motivasjon, før de bokstavelig talt støter på hverandre i et forlatt barnehjem. Tiår tidligere var dette Wills hjem. De to etterforskerne må hanskes med fortidens demoner, hvis de ønsker å avverge en katastrofe.«Karin Slaughters beste, så langt.» Lee Child«… en nervepirrende og kompleks fortelling som spenner over nesten fire tiår.» The Washington Post «Slaughter leverer enda en medrivende og nervepirrende kriminalroman.» Booklist «Ikke gå glipp av denne ... Slaughter har alltid vært bra, veldig bra. Men det er noe helt spesielt med den siste boken.» The Providence Sunday Journal

Politinspektør Faith Mitchell har vært på seminar og skal innom moren sin for å hente den fire måneder gamle datteren. Hun har ringt på forhånd, men ingen tar telefonen. Da hun kommer fram til huset, finner hun ytterdøra åpen, og blodige avtrykk etter hender. Hun ringer etter forsterkninger, men før partner Will Trent rekker å komme fram, bryter hun politiets regler og går hun inn i huset. Der finner hun en død person og to menn med våpen. Moren er imidlertid ikke noe sted å se, og i stedet for at hun blir satt til å etterforske saken, må Faith finne seg i å bli ansett som både vitne og mistenkt.«En kompleks, gripende og samtidig alvorlig roman som bekrefter Slaughters store talent.» Washington Post"Slaughter har alltid visst hvordan hun skal skape spenning i sine fremragende krimromaner, men her overgår hun virkelig seg selv ...» Booklist"Karin Slaughters romaner er alltid voldsomme og mørke, men aldri forutsigbare ... Men det er også mye varme i hennes beretninger. Hun står klippefast på offerets side, og klasseperspektivet er krystallklart." Liza Marklund”Slaughter kan være våre dagers beste kvinnelige spenningsforfatter.” Library Journal”Slaughter har alltid visst hvordan hun skal skape spenning i sine fantastiske krimromaner, men denne gangen har hun virkelig overgått seg selv… Hun avslører hjertet og sjelen til sine karakterer gjennom en nøye planlagt, nervepirrende historie.” Booklist Karin Slaughters thrillere er utgitt i 30 land !