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 Husband Is Killed. The Disappearance Of A Teenage Girl And The Murder Of A Middle-aged Man, Almost A Quarter-century Apart: What Could Connect Them? Forming A Wary Truce, The Surviving Sisters Look To The Past To Find The Truth, Unearthing The Secrets That Destroyed Their Family All Those Years Ago... And Uncovering The Possibility Of Redemption, And Revenge, Where They Least Expect It. Karin Slaughter.

Gillian Flynn Says, Karin Slaughter Is Simply One Of The Best Thriller Writers Working Today. 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 Got More Than A Sadistic Serial Killer On His Hands, For The County's Sole Female Detective, Lena Adams—the First Victim's Sister—want To Serve Her Own Justice. But It Is Sara Who Holds The Key To Finding The Killer. A Secret From Her Past Could Unmask The Brilliantly Malevolent Psychopath .. Or Mean Her Death.

Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's First Day On The Job And The Atlanta Police Department Is Seething After The Murder Of An Officer. Before The Day Has Barely Begun, She Already Suspects She's Not Cut Out For The Job As A Cop. Her Male Uniform Is Too Big, She Can't Handle A Gun, And She's Rapidly Learning That The Apd Is Hardly A Place That Welcomes Women. Worse Still, In The Ensuing Manhunt, She'll Be Partnered With Maggie Lawson, A Cop With Her Own Ax To Grind (and A Brother And Uncle Already On The Force)--a Strategy Meant To Isolate Kate And Maggie From The Action. But The Move Will Backfire, Putting Them Right At The Heart Of It-- Karin Slaughter.

Two Girls Are Forced Into The Woods At Gunpoint. One Runs For Her Life. One Is Left Behind . . . The Stunning New Novel From The International #1 Bestselling Author—a Searing, Spellbinding Blend Of Cold-case Thriller And Psychological Suspense. 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, Charlie Has Followed In Her Father’s Footsteps To Become A Lawyer Herself—the Ideal Good Daughter. But When Violence Comes To Pikeville Again—and A Shocking Tragedy Leaves The Whole Town Traumatized—charlie Is Plunged Into A Nightmare. Not Only Is She The First Witness On The Scene, But It’s A Case That Unleashes The Terrible Memories She’s Spent So Long Trying To Suppress. Because The Shocking Truth About The Crime That Destroyed Her Family Nearly Thirty Years Ago Won’t Stay Buried Forever . . . “i’d Follow Karin Slaughter Anywhere.” —gillian Flynn

The #1 Internationally Bestselling Author Returns With A New Novel In The Vein Of The New York Times Bestsellers Pretty Girls And The Good Daughter—a Story Even More Electrifying, Provocative, And Suspenseful Than Anything She’s Written Before. 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’s 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 Saturday Afternoon Trip To The Mall Explodes Into Violence And Andrea Suddenly Sees A Completely Different Side To Laura. Because It Turns Out That Before Laura Was Laura, She Was Someone Completely Different. For Nearly Thirty Years She’s Been Hiding From Her Previous Identity, Lying Low In The Hope That No One Will Ever Find Her. But Now She’s Been Exposed, And Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again. Twenty-four Hours Later Laura Is In The Hospital, Shot By An Intruder Who’s Spent Thirty Years Trying To Track Her Down And Discover What She Knows. Andrea Is On A Desperate Journey Following The Breadcrumbs Of Her Mother’s Past. And If She Can’t Uncover The Secrets Hidden There, There May Be No Future For Either One Of Them. . . .

Instant New York Times Bestseller! New York Times Bestselling Author Karin Slaughter Brings Back Will Trent And Sara Linton In This Superb And Timely Thriller Full Of Devious Twists, Disturbing Secrets, And Shocking Surprises You Won't See Coming A Mysterious Kidnapping 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. A Devastating Explosion 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 Of Emory University, Two Major Hospitals, The Fbi Headquarters, And The Cdc. A Diabolical Enemy Medical Examiner Sara Linton And Her Partner Will Trent, An Investigator With The Georgia Bureau Of Investigation, Rush To The Scene--and Into The Heart Of A Deadly Conspiracy That Threatens To Destroy Thousands Of Innocent Lives. When The Assailants Abduct Sara, Will Goes Undercover To Save Her And Prevent A Massacre--putting His Own Life On The Line For The Woman And The Country He Loves.

If You're Into Mystery Thrillers, Then You're Into Karin Slaughter. --theskimm He Watches. He Waits. He Takes. Who Will Be Next . . . The Silent Wife Investigating The Killing Of A Prisoner During A Riot Inside A State Penitentiary, Gbi Investigator Will Trent Is Confronted With Disturbing Information. One Of The Inmates Claims That He Is Innocent Of A Brutal Attack For Which He Has Always Been The Prime Suspect. The Man Insists That He Was Framed By A Corrupt Law Enforcement Team Led By Jeffrey Tolliver And That The Real Culprit Is Still Out There--a Serial Killer Who Has Systematically Been Preying On Women Across The State For Years. If Will Reopens The Investigation And Implicates The Dead Police Officer With A Hero's Reputation Of Wrongdoing, The Opportunistic Convict Is Willing To Provide The Information Gbi Needs About The Riot Murder. Only Days Ago, Another Young Woman Was Viciously Murdered In A State Park In Northern Georgia. Is It A Fluke, Or Could There Be A Serial Killer On The Loose? As Will Trent Digs Into Both Crimes It Becomes Clear That He Must Solve The Cold Case In Order To Find The Answer. Yet Nearly A Decade Has Passed--time For Memories To Fade, Witnesses To Vanish, Evidence To Disappear, And Lies To Become Truth. But Will Can't Crack Either Mystery Without The Help Of The One Person He Doesn't Want Involved: His Girlfriend And Jeffrey Tolliver's Widow, Medical Examiner Sara Linton. When The Past And Present Begin To Collide, Will Realizes That Everything He Values Is At Stake . . .

It's Slaughter's Prodigious Gifts Of Characterization That Make Her Stand Out Among Thriller Writers. -- Washington Post If You're Into Mystery Thrillers, Then You're Into Karin Slaughter. -- Theskimm The New Electrifying Thriller From New York Times Bestselling Author Karin Slaughter!

Will Trent Is Undercover At Fort Knox. His Assignment: To Investigate A Twenty-two-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. And The Only Option Is For Jack Reacher And Will Trent To Team Up And Play Nicely. If They Can... --publisher Description.

Desire leaves a man destroyed . . . A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden . . . Jealousy drives a woman mad . . . An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge . . . Ambition leads to a curious exchange . . . An uncanny likeness changes two lives forever . . . The hand of fate lies buried in the past . . . An unforgettable novel in seventeen parts by some of the most prestigious crime writers working today. One bracelet, seventeen charms . . . From nineteenth-century Georgia, where the bracelet is forged in fire, to wartime Leeds, the seedy underside of London's Soho, a Manhattan taxi, the frozen cliffs of Nova Scotia, and back to Georgia, each writer weaves a gripping story of murder, betrayal, and intrigue.