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Shoot-out, Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. And what seems at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse and ritualistic self-mutilation. Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, but the children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs.

Dos niñas son obligadas a internarse en el bosque a punta de pistola. Una huye para salvar su vida. La otra se queda atrás. Hace veintiocho años, un crimen horrendo sacudió la feliz vida familiar de Charlotte y Samantha Quinn. Su madre resultó muerta. Su padre, un conocido abogado defensor de Pikeville, quedó roto de dolor. La familia se deshizo irremediablemente, consumida por los secretos de aquella noche pavorosa.

FBI Special Agent Will Trent’s instinct is put to the test. An exclusive straight-to-digital short story from the number-one best seller. On assignment at Atlanta's busy airport Special Agent Will Trent is forced to make a split-second decision. But is it the right one? Multi-million copy, international best-selling thriller writer Karin Slaughter is known for her razor-sharp plotting and her ability to put the listener right at the heart of the crime. Snatched is Karin at her best in a compelling story that will grip you like a vice.

This Is Why We Lied \ Por eso mentimos (Spanish edition) has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

A los trece años, la niñez de Charlie Quinn llegó a un brusco y desolador final. Dos hombres, con asuntos pendientes con su padre, que era abogado, irrumpieron en su casa y después de esa terrible noche el mundo de Charlie no volvió a ser el mismo. Ahora que ella también era abogada, se había propuesto defender a aquellos de los que nadie se preocupaba nunca. Por eso, cuando Flora Faulkner, una adolescente huérfana, le pidió ayuda, Charlie se acordó de su pasado y no fue capaz de decirle que no.

It begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but it's as if she disappeared into thin air. A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is at lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. But the serenity of the summer's day is broken by the wail of sirens.

Leigh and her sister Callie are not bad people - but one night, more than two decades ago, they did something terrible. And the result was a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, devastated by violence. Years later, Leigh has pushed that night from her mind and become a successful lawyer - but when she is forced to take on a new client against her will, her world begins to spiral out of control.

Will Trent es un brillante agente de la Oficina de Investigación del estado de Georgia. Ahora enamorado, comienza a cargar con un pasado difícil. De repente, una estudiante universitaria ha desaparecido y Will es, inexplicablemente separado del caso por su supervisora y mentora Amanda Wagner. Cuarenta años atrás, en el verano en el que Will nació, Amanda daba sus primeros pasos en el Departamento de Policía de Atlanta y uno de sus primeros casos fue la investigación de un crimen brutal en uno de los barrios más peligrosos de la ciudad.

Get ready for a turbo-charged short listen from two of the world’s biggest thriller writers. Jack Reacher and Will Trent. Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene.

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.

La autora bestseller del New York Times, Karin Slaughter, regresa con otro thriller electrizante en la querida serie de misterio de Will Trent, esta vez enfrentando a Will y Sara contra un misterioso grupo que planea desatar una epidemia mortal.

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. But when violence comes to Pikeville again—and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized—Charlie is plunged into a nightmare.

It takes a split second for your life to change forever. And for Andrea Oliver that split second is a mass shooting in her local mall. But this shocking act is only the start. Because then, as the bodies fall around them, Andy’s mother Laura takes a step forward into the line of fire. Hours later, Laura is in hospital, her face splashed over the newspapers. But the danger has only just begun. Now Andy must embark on a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of her mother’s past before any more blood is shed....

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.

Es sollte ein unbeschwertes Date auf der gut besuchten Rollschuhbahn werden. Doch für Sara Linton und Polizeichef Jeffrey Tolliver überschlagen sich die Ereignisse, als plötzlich die 13-jährige Jenny mit einer Waffe in der Menge auftaucht. Sie droht damit, den Teenager Mark zu erschießen. Obwohl Jeffrey alles tut, um die Situation zu entschärfen, kommt es zur Eskalation: Jeffrey muss Jenny töten, um Mark zu retten. Und der Albtraum hat noch kein Ende gefunden.

Mordet på en ung, kvindelig universitetsprofessor lammer lokalsamfundet i Grant County. Det er retsmediciner Sara Linton, som finder liget på et toilet på den lokale café. Inden kvinden blev myrdet, er hun blevet brutalt voldtaget og lemlæstet. Sara Linton har aldrig set noget værre, men hendes chok bliver ikke mindre, da hun genkender kvinden som Sibyl Adams; tvillingesøster til hendes eksmands mest betroede medarbejder. Saras eksmand er Jeffrey Tolliver, byens politimester.

El descubrimiento de un asesinato en una obra abandonada conduce a Will Trent y al Georgia Bureau of Investigation a un caso que se vuelve más peligroso cuando el cadáver es identificado como el de un expolicía. Tras hacer la autopsia, Sara Linto —la nueva forense del GBI y amante de Will— descubre que la ingente cantidad de sangre encontrada no pertenece a la víctima. Con seguridad, un rastro de sangre que sale fuera de la escena del crimen indica que hay otra víctima, una mujer que ha desaparecido… a la que si no encuentran pronto, morirá.

Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America’s military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene. But there’s a bigger conspiracy at play - one that neither the special agent nor the ex-military cop could have anticipated.

Andrea Oliver's mother, Laura, is the perfect small-town mum. Laura lives a quiet but happy life in sleepy beachside Belle Isle. She's a pillar of the community: a speech therapist, business owner, and everybody's friend. And she's never kept a secret from anyone. Or so Andrea thinks. When Andrea is caught in a random violent attack at a shopping mall, Laura intervenes and acts in a way that is unrecognizable to her daughter. It"s like Laura is a completely different person—and that's because she was. Thirty years ago. Before Andrea. Before Belle Isle.

Eine Collegeprofessorin wird aufgeschlitzt in einer Restauranttoilette gefunden. Für die junge Frau gibt es keine Rettung mehr, und die einst so friedliche Kleinstadt Heartsdale ist schwer erschüttert. Die Gerichtsmedizinerin Sara Linton findet heraus: Das wahre Grauen des Opfers begann schon lange vor seinem Tod. Nach und nach enthüllt sich ihr der morbide Plan eines sadistischen Psychopathen - und eine furchtbare Erkenntnis: Ein Geheimnis aus ihrer Vergangenheit könnte den Killer überführen... oder ihren eigenen Tod bedeuten.