Karin Slaughter

"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...

"Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully co-parent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal,...

“Powerful and complex . . .  [Karin] Slaughter gradually unspools her fascinating story, all the way up to its shocking conclusion.”—Chicago Sun-Times
In a small Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams is accused of a vicious murder. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver learns that his young detective has been arrested. And Jeffrey’s wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, fighting

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Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever. Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her...

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. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse,...

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...

Proteger alguém tem sempre um preço. A meninice de Charlie Quinn viu-se súbita e devastadoramente interrompida aos treze anos de idade. O rancor que dois homens guardavam ao seu pai advogado fê-los irromper na sua casa e, a partir dessa noite horrenda, o mundo de Charlie jamais voltou a ser o mesmo. Agora que também ela é advogada, Charlie incumbiu-se da missão de defender todos aqueles que não têm quem os defenda. Por isso, quando Flora...

First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes revenge. In this sensational short story from the bestselling author of The Kept Woman and Pretty Girls, fifty-two-year-old Pam has done her utmost as a loyal wife to her now ex-husband John. He dropped her cruelly . . . but with a terminal illness about to claim his life, Pam now sees an opportunity to settle the score, in a way that no one-not their children, not her ex, and certainly not...

Una preciosa joven iba caminando por la calle cuando de repente... Julia Carroll sabe que muchas historias comienzan así. Bella e inteligente, a sus diecinueve años, recién llegada a la universidad, debería vivir despreocupadamente. Pero tiene miedo. Porque en su ciudad están desapareciendo chicas muy jóvenes. Primero fue Beatrice Oliver, una estudiante. Luego Mona Sin Apellido, una joven sin techo. Las dos desaparecidas en plena calle. Las...

Karin Slaughter, autora aclamada internacionalmente, regresa con un thriller psicológico sofisticado y escalofriante en el que, mezclando turbios secretos, fría venganza y una inesperada posibilidad de absolución, nos presenta a dos hermanas que, tras haber perdido el contacto, han de unir fuerzas para desvelar la verdad acerca de las espantosas tragedias que, separadas por veinte años, destrozaron sus vidas. Hermanas. Desconocidas. Supervivientes. Han...