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Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, 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 keen 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.

Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?

John Shelley se réveille après une soirée d'étudiants mouvementée à côté de sa petite amie - morte, la langue tranchée... Il va vivre l'enfer de la prison pour un crime dont il n'a aucun souvenir. Le détective Michael Ormewood, en patrouille dans les bas-fonds d'Atlanta, découvre le cadavre d'une jeune prostituée sauvagement assassinée, la langue arrachée d'un coup de dents. On lui impose de travailler avec... Will Trent, agent qui cache comme il le peut sa dyslexie. Les trajectoires de Shelley et Ormewood vont se croiser, au paroxysme de la violence.

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.

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.

When medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a trip away from the small town of Heartsdale, it should be a straightforward weekend at the beach. But they decide to take a detour via Jeffrey's hometown and things go violently wrong when Jeffrey's best friend Robert shoots dead an intruder who breaks into his home. Jeffrey and Sara are first on the scene and Jeffrey's keen to clear his friend's name, but for Sara things aren't so simple.

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.

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.

A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl.

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.

UNA SERIE NETFLIX! Madre. Eroina. Bugiarda. Assassina. E se la persona che credi di conoscere meglio al mondo si rivelasse una perfetta sconosciuta? Sulla scia dei successi internazionali di Quelle belle ragazze e La figlia modello , Karin Macellazione torna con un nuovo romanzo ad alto tasso di azione, suspense e adrenalina... E, se possibile, con una storia ancora più elettrizzante di quelle scritte finora. Andrea sa tutto di sua madre Laura.

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.

Welcome to the McAlpine Lodge: a remote mountain getaway, it's the height of escapist luxury living. Except that everyone here is lying. Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves. Then one night, Mercy McAlpine—until now the good daughter—threatens to expose everybody's secrets. Just hours later, Mercy is dead. In an area this remote, it's easy to get away with murder.

Politikommissær Jeffrey Tolliver gør et makabert fund i en skovbund, idet han nærmest snubler over et metalrør, der fører ned til en interimistisk grav. En ung kvinde er blevet levende begravet, og ser umiddelbart ud til at være død af iltmangel. Men retsmediciner Sara Lintons obduktion afslører et ganske andet scenario. Offeret bliver hurtigt identificeret som Abigail Bennett, et medlem af The Holy Grown landbrugskollektiv. Kollektivet er underligt nok ganske uanfægtet ved nyheden om, at et medlem er blevet forgiftet, og mistanken breder sig hurtigt. Endnu en grav dukker op og endnu en pige forsvinder.

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.

1970s Atlanta: A time of great change and yet for many the fierce desire to keep things exactly the same is still strong. For women like Maggie Lawson and Kate Murphy every day is a battle. From different sides of the tracks they are united in their determination to be good cops. But they have to fight the prejudice of people like Maggie's uncle Terry who are convinced a woman's place is in the home. And all this in a city where 10 cops are killed a year and most of the city is a no-go area - even for their male colleagues.

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.

Martin Riley feels as if the life that should have been his is slowly slipping away. Working as a senior executive accountant at Dixie Toilet Supplies and still living with his mother, he finds himself returning to his childhood love of reading crime fiction. When a co-worker is brutally murdered in the men's locker room, Martin finally sees his chance to shine.

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper's assault is uncannily linked to Sara's.

UNA FAMIGLIA TOSSICA. OTTO OSPITI SOSPETTI. UN SOLO ASSASSINO. TUTTI SONO COLPEVOLI... MA CHI HA UCCISO MERCY MCALPINE? Qui tutti mentono, ma solo uno tra noi è anche un assassino. Benvenuti al McAlpine Family Lodge: una vacanza in questo lussuoso resort in alta montagna, nel cuore dei Monti Appalachi, sembra l’ideale per trascorrere un po’ di tempo lontano dalla frenesia della vita moderna e ritrovare se stessi. Se non fosse che qui tutti mentono. Mentono sul proprio passato. Alla loro famiglia. A se stessi.