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When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, but the children surrounding the victim close ranks.

Jeffrey Tolliver und Sara Linton in ihrem dritten FallEs ist schon der dritte Tote in einer Woche. Am Grant College haben die Studenten offenbar ein makaberes neues Hobby: Sterben. Doch Polizeichef Jeffrey Tolliver und die Rechtsmedizinerin Sara Linton werden den Verdacht nicht los, dass mit diesen Selbstmorden irgendetwas nicht stimmt ...

"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER - First time in print: the bonus story "Busted" Karin Slaughter's novels featuring detective 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.

La agente Faith Mitchell llega tarde a todos sitios. Se suponía que tenía que recoger a su bebé a mediodía, pero no para de llamar a su madre a casa y no le responde. Evelyn Mitchell, capitana de la policia de Atlanta ya retirada nunca sale de casa sin decirle a alguien adonde va, especialmente si esta cuidando de su nieto. La preocupacion de Faith se intensifica despues de horas de llamadas sin respuestaCuando se presenta en casa de Evelyn, encuentra la huella sangrienta de una mano en la puerta de la entrada, y la casa hecha un caos. Todo indica que su madre ha sido secuestrada.Encontrarla se convertira en tarea prioritaria de Amanda Wagner, la subdirectora del departamento de policia y amiga intima de Evelyn. El compañero de Faith, Will Trent la ayudara con una investigacion paralela. Las sospechas apuntan a los antiguos compañeros de Evelyn en la brigada de narcoticos, todos ellos condenados por corrupcion por quedarse con parte del dinero decomisado al que tenian acceso; sin embargo, una nueva pista proporcionada por una vecina chismosa desvia la investigacion hacia un caballero que visitaba a Evelyn varias veces a la semana.Mientras la investigacion avanza, el romance entre la doctora Linton y Will Trent se afianza; Faith intenta mantener la compostura en la terrible situacion que le ha tocado vivir; Amanda y Will persiguen todos los indicios, incluso aquellos que les lleven a los bajos fondos del estado de Georgia. La prioridad es encontrar a Evelyn y detener a sus secuestradores antes de que sea demasiado tarde

Cuando aparece el cuerpo de una joven bajo las aguas congeladas del lago Grant, una nota que se encuentra bajo una piedra en las proximidades apunta a que se trata de un suicidio. Pero en muy poco tiempo, esta hipotesis da paso a otra mucho mas posible: un brutal asesinato a sangre fria. La medico del condado de Grant, Sara Linton, se encuentra envuelta en el caso casi sin quererlo. El principal sospechoso pide con desesperacion reunirse con ella, pero cuando Sara llega a la comisaria de policia, se encuentra con que el sospechoso esta muerto en su celda, y las palabras "NO HE SIDO YO" estan escritas en las paredes. Poco despues, el agente especial Will Trent regresa apresuradamente de sus vacaciones para investigar, tras la llamada de Sara, pero no contaba con topar con una pared de silencio. Y la unica persona que podria ayudar a aclarar lo que realmente sucedio esta muerta?

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.

Cuando aparece el cuerpo de una joven bajo las aguas congeladas del lago Grant, una nota que se encuentra bajo una piedra en las proximidades apunta a que se trata de un suicidio. Pero en muy poco tiempo, esta hipótesis da paso a otra mucho más posible: un brutal asesinato a sangre fría. La doctora del condado de Grant, Sara Linton, se ve envuelta en el caso casi sin quererlo. El principal sospechoso pide con desesperación reunirse con ella, pero cuando Sara llega a la comisaría de policía, se encuentra con que el sospechoso está muerto en su celda, y las palabras «no he sido yo» están escritas en las paredes. Poco después, el agente especial Will Trent regresa apresuradamente de sus vacaciones para investigar, tras la llamada de Sara, pero no contaba con topar con una pared de silencio. Y la única persona que podría ayudar a aclarar lo que realmente sucedió está muerta…

Karin Slaughter ha sido considerada sucesora del estilo de Patricia Cornwell, pero no es verdad: es mejor.En esta serie Slaughter junta a los personajes más queridos y populares de sus anteriores series y el resultado es explosivo.La ultima novela de Slaughter es una lectura fascinante sobre como dos personajes con sus propias debilidades se juntan para combatir la maldad absoluta. PeopleKarin Slaughter es una de las mejores escritoras de genero criminal de los Estados Unidos The Washington PostEn la sala de urgencias del hospital mas ajetreado de Atlanta, la doctora Sara Linton se ocupa de una mujer muy malherida: desnuda y con evidentes signos de haber sido torturada, esta claro que ha sido presa de una mente retorcida. El detective Will Trent, de la Oficina estatal de Investigacion de Georgia y su compañera Faith Mitchell, comienzan la investigacion de los hechos pero enseguida se dan cuenta de que la terrible realidad es que la paciente de Sara tan solo es una de las multiples victimas de un asesino cruel y sadico. Ademas muy pronto, otra mujer inteligente, atractiva y bien situada es secuestrada. Will y su compañera Faith Mitchell se encuentran en el ojo de un huracan para dar caza y captura a un asesino.

This is the compelling stand alone novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Unseen and Criminal. 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. For life is anything but easy in the male-dominated world of the Atlanta Police Department, where even the other female cops have little mercy for the new girl. Kate isn't the only woman on the force who is finding things tough. Maggie Lawson followed her uncle and brother into the ranks to prove her worth in their cynical eyes. When Maggie and Kate become partners, and are sidelined in the search for the city's cop killer, their fury, pain, and pride finally reach boiling point. With the killer poised to strike again, will Kate and Maggie have the courage to pursue their own line of investigation? And are they prepared to risk everything as they venture into the city's darkest heart?

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. For life is anything but easy in the male-dominated world of the Atlanta Police Department, where even the other female cops have little mercy for the new girl.Kate isn't the only woman on the force who is finding things tough. Maggie Lawson followed her uncle and brother into the ranks to prove her worth in their cynical eyes. When Maggie and Kate become partners, and are sidelined in the search for the city's cop killer, their fury, pain, and pride finally reach boiling point.With the killer poised to strike again, will Kate and Maggie have the courage to pursue their own line of investigation? And are they prepared to risk everything as they venture into the city's darkest heart?

Karin SlaughterSomeone had spent time with her - someone well-practiced in the art of pain... Three years ago former Grant Country medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working at 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 it soon becomes clear that she has also been brutally attacked. Her body is covered in old bruises and blood, her face is clawed, there are tears in her skin as if hooks had been embedded in her flesh and a rib has been forcibly removed. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident he stumbles on a torture chamber deep underground, and it becomes clear that Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer .

Someone had spent time with her - someone well-practised in the art of pain...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[...]

Even those who know Karin Slaughter's books only by reputation are aware of her pole position in the realm of tough and persuasive crime thrillers. In Genesis we are again in the company of medical examiner Sara Linton, who several years previously had left Grant County for Atlanta to heal the psychological wounds of her troubled past. Holding down a job in Atlanta's Grady Hospital, she is slowly finding a kind of equilibrium again. But then a seriously wounded young woman is delivered to the hospital, and Sara finds herself once again in a familiar world of brutality and evil. Although the young women is the victim of a car accident, it's evident that she has also been at the mercy of a sadistic killer. Working on the case is Will Trent, an agent of the Criminal Investigation Team, and at the scene of the accident, he discovers a grim subterranean secret: a room laid out like a torture chamber with instruments of mutilation. And the psychotic individual responsible will soon be plying his grisly trade again, unless Sara Linton and Will Trent can assume responsibility for the investigation (the local police chief being unable to cope). The clock is ticking…

El policía Jeffrey Tolliver regresa a Sylacauga, un pequeño pueblo en el centro de Alabama. Vuelve para enseñarle a su novia, la forense Sara Linton, el lugar en el que nació y presentarle a su madre. Pero el pasado se le reaparece a Tolliver como una maldición: una vieja acusación de violación y asesinato, la detención de su íntimo amigo de la infancia por un homicidio por celos, el descubrimiento de un viejo cadáver, el odio de sus vecinos… Tan sólo la presencia de la forense y de Hoss, el viejo sheriff que le salvó de la violencia de su padre, parecen ir a su rescate. Veinte años después de aquel atroz viaje, Jeffrey y Sara son rehenes en un secuestro en la comisaría del condado de Grant, asaltada a fuego y sangre por dos individuos... ¿Quiénes son? La detective Lena Adams intentará rescatarles si la maldición de Sylacauga no acaba con todos ellos antes. Hay heridas que nunca cicatrizan.

En los terrenos pertenecientes a una pequeña universidad del sur de Estados Unidos ha sido hallado el cuerpo de un estudiante que aparentemente se ha suicidado. Acompañada de su hermana embarazada, la forense Sara Linton acude al lugar para examinar el cadaver del joven, pero hay algunos detalles que no parecen cuadrar con la hipotesis del suicidio. Mientras Sara trabaja, su hermana Tessa, que se ha separado del grupo, es atacada brutalmente por un desconocido. A partir de ahi, la investigacion que dirige Jeffrey Tolliver, ex marido de Sara y jefe de policia, deja de ser rutinaria y toma un rumbo inesperado. No tardan en aparecer los cadaveres de otros dos estudiantes universitarios. Los primeros indicios señalan que tambien se han suicidado, pero la logica invita a pensar que hay algo mas oscuro y terrible detras de este cadena de muertes. Con un ritmo vertiginoso, Temor frio avanza sin dar concesiones al lector, desarrollando una historia que engancha desde la primera hasta la ultima pagina.

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. Her latest offering 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.

When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. All too soon former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight - he lies dead in his cell, the words 'Not me' scrawled across the walls. Something about his confession doesn't add up and deeply suspicious of the detective in charge, Lena Adams, Sara immediately calls the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards, Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties and ties that run deep. And the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead…