Karin Slaughter
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"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...
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"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,...
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Will Trent series volume 8
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It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor--the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away ... and has vanished into thin air. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest and most high-profile athlete--a local hero protected by...
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Will Trent series volume 10
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Investigating a brutal murder that eerily resembles another from years earlier, Will Trent reopens the case of a possibly wrongly convicted prisoner before teaming up with medical examiner Sara Linton to hunt down the true killer.
5) Blindsighted
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Grant County series volume 1
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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...
6) Indelible
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Grant County series volume 4
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Medical examiner Sara Linton finds herself at the center of a terrifying hostage crisis when an assailant shoots down a police officer and wounds Sheriff Jeffrey Tolliver in the Grant County police station.
7) Kisscut
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Grant County series volume 2
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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,...
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Grant County series volume 3
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An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent "suicides" suggests that a different kind of terror is stalking the youth of Heartsdale, Georgia-a nightmare that is coming to prey on Sara Linton's loved ones.
A small town is being transformed into a...
9) Last Breath
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Protecting someone always comes at a cost.
At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn's childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home-and after that shocking night, Charlie's world was never the same.
Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it her mission to defend those with no one else to turn to. So when Flora Faulkner, a motherless teen, begs for help, Charlie is reminded...
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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...
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Una pequeña ciudad oculta un gran secreto.
¿Quién mató a Emily Vaughn?
EL IMPRESIONANTE NUEVO THRILLER DE LA AUTORA SUPERVENTAS INTERNACIONAL KARIN SLAUGHTER,
AUTORA DE ¿SABES QUIÉN ES?
Una chica con un secreto...
Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn se prepara para la noche de graduación, el punto culminante de cualquier experiencia en la escuela secundaria. Pero Emily tiene un secreto. Y al acabar la noche, estará muerta.
Un asesinato que...
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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...
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Es ist der persönlichste Fall in Will Trents Laufbahn. Das spürt der Ermittler schon in dem Moment, als er das leer stehende 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! Als am Tatort zudem...
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Die 15-jährige Flora fühlt sich ausgenutzt und will nur weg - weg aus der Drogenhölle ihrer Großeltern, weg von deren perfiden Machenschaften. Inständig bittet sie Charlie Quinn um Hilfe. Als die Anwältin die Familie ihrer Klientin zur Rede stellt, schlägt ihr ein unerwarteter Hass entgegen. Um jeden Preis will sie verhindern, dass die Jugendliche zum Opfer von Geldgier und Gewalt wird. Doch ihre Nachforschungen konfrontieren Charlie mit einer...
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Andrea Oliver novels volume 1
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What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea Cooper knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Gullaway Island; she knows she's never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she's never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don't we? But all that changes when a...
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Will Trent series volume 9
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On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who's been vanished into thin air. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast-followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta's busiest and most important neighborhoods has been bombed-the location...
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Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - Pikeville's notorious defense attorney - devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself - the...
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New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills.
From small-town crime stories to sweeping global conspiracies, this is a cross section of today's hottest thriller-writing talent. This original collection is now split into four e-book volumes, packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem!
First Thrills: Volume 3 contains stories five original stories...