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Ineke Lenting

    De grens van de waarheid
    De Hoogvlieger
    Genesis
    Pachinko
    Oh the Glory of It All
    We Are All Guilty Here
    • *Special Collector's Edition available to the first UK print run only! Featuring a beautiful foil on board design beneath the dust jacket, make sure to pre-order your copy. Available while stocks last.* This gripping first installment in a new crime thriller series from a No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author promises an engaging experience. With praise highlighting its depth and intensity, readers can expect a powerful narrative. Welcome to North Falls, a small town where everyone knows each other, yet the truth remains elusive. Emmy Clifton, a lifelong resident, believes she understands her neighbors and the ordinary summer night ahead. But when her best friend's daughter seeks help, Emmy dismisses it as typical teenage drama. As the girl goes missing, the town erupts, and Emmy dedicates herself to the search, only to discover that true knowledge of a town comes from uncovering its secrets. Is she prepared for the revelations that await? This novel captures the essence of small-town America, exploring complex family dynamics filled with secrets and paranoia, making it a compelling and intricately woven thriller that will keep readers enthralled from beginning to end.

      We Are All Guilty Here
      4.3
    • Oh the Glory of It All

      • 625 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Sean's blond bombshell mother regularly entertains Black Panthers and movie stars in the family's marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade. The three live happily together "eight-hundred feet in the air above San Francisco; in an apartment at the top of a building at the top of a hill: full of light, full of voices, full of windows full of water and bridges and hills." But when his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend, Sean's life blows apart. His memoir shows us how he survived, spinning out a "deliriously searing and convincing" portrait of a wicked stepmother, a meeting with the pope, disastrous sexual awakenings, and a tour of "the planet's most interesting reform schools"

      Oh the Glory of It All
      4.3
    • Pachinko

      • 560 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      * The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinkois an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.

      Pachinko
      4.3
    • Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her 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, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror.

      Genesis
      4.2
    • De Hoogvlieger

      • 255 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Philip Randall heeft het helemaal gemaakt. Hij is knap, hip en rijk. Hij werkt bij een prestigieus advocatenkantoor in Manhattan, is getrouwd met een vrouw die door haar vader bedolven wordt onder elke denkbare luxe, heeft een loft in Soho en een bloedmooie minnares, Jessica. Er is één nadeel: Jessica is de vrouw van zijn beste vriend, Connor. Dan duikt er een oude bekende op die Philip achtervolgt. Philip weigert te aanvaarden dat hij deze situatie onmogelijk in zijn voordeel kan keren – hij wordt het middelpunt van een moordzaak. Zal deze veelbelovende carrièrist zijn verdiende loon krijgen?

      De Hoogvlieger
      3.5
    • De grens van de waarheid

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Een vader, een dochter en familiegeheimen die onbespreekbaar blijven. 'Beste Eleanor Roosevelt, Houdt u van verhalen?' Zo begint op 11 september 1940 de eerste brief van Itzak Lejdel aan de echtgenote van de Amerikaanse president. Itzak is een joodse jongen uit Brussel op de vlucht voor de nazi's. Hij is aan boord van de Quanza, een Portugees stoomschip dat een maaand eerder met 317 joodse vluchtelingen uit Lissabon vertrok. Itzak vestigt zijn laatste hoop op Eleanor Roosevelt. Hij schrijft haar een serie brieven in de hoop door haar tussenkomst alsnog een visum te krijgen. New York, 2003. Sara Leader, de dochter van Itzak, probeert erachter te komen wat er tijdens de Tweede Wereloorlog met haar vader en zijn familie is gebeurd. Hij heeft nooit ergens over willen praten en ontwijkt al haar vragen. Door zelf op onderzoek uit te gaan ontdekt Sara het geheim van het verdriet da thij noooit met haar heeft willen of kunnen delen.

      De grens van de waarheid
      3.5
    • The next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and After That Night!Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer…A secluded cabin retreatFor GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.A murderer in their midstMercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain. But as Will and Sara investigate the McAlpine family and the other guests, they realize that everyone here is lying….Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves.Who killed Mercy McAlpine?It soon becomes clear that normal rules don’t apply at McAlpine Lodge, and Will and Sara are going to have to watch their step at every turn. Trapped on the resort, they must untangle a decades-old web of secrets to discover what happened to Mercy. And with the killer poised to strike again, the trip of a lifetime becomes a race against the clock…

      This Is Why We Lied
      4.2
    • After That Night

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      After that night, nothing was ever the same againFifteen 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. And it seems the past isn't going to stay buried forever.

      After That Night
      4.2
    • Simon Snow just wants to relax and savour his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he'll be safe. Simon can't even enjoy the fact that his room-mate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can't stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you're the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savour anything. Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.

      Carry On
      4.2
    • The latest novel in the Will Trent series from No. 1 bestselling author, Karin Slaughter.A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse. It's the body of an ex-cop, and from the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in he knows this could be the most devastating case of his career. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim - a woman - has left the scene and vanished into thin air. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest, most politically-connected, most high-profile athlete - a local hero protected by the world's most expensive lawyers. A local hero Will has spent the last six months investigating on a brutal rape charge.But for Will - and also for Dr Sara Linton, the GBI's newest medical examiner - the case is about to get even worse. Because an unexpected discovery at the scene reveals a personal link to Will's troubled past. The consequences will wreak havoc on his life and the lives of those he loves, those he works with, and those he pursues.But Sara's scene-of-the-crime diagnosis is that they only have a few hours to find the missing woman before she bleeds out . . .

      The Kept Woman
      4.2
    • He watches. A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she has no reason to be afraid, but she's wrong. A predator is stalking the women of Grant County. He lingers in the shadows, until the time is just right to snatch his victim. He waits. A decade later, the case has been closed. The killer is behind bars. But then another young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead, and the MO is identical. He takes. Although the original trail has gone cold - memories have faded, witnesses have disappeared - agent Will Trent and forensic pathologist Sara Linton must re-open the cold case. But the clock is ticking, and the killer is determined to find his perfect silent wife.

      The Silent Wife
      4.2
    • Unseen

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The seventh Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide. Something he doesn't want Dr Sara Linton - the woman he loves - to find out. He's gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at risk. And he knows Sara will never forgive him if she discovers the truth. But when a young patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced to confront the past and a woman she hoped never to see again. And without even knowing it, she becomes involved in the same case Will is working on. Soon both of their lives are in danger.

      Unseen
      4.2
    • Will Trent - 2: Versplinterd / druk 10

      • 437 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Karin Slaughter bizi diğer romancıların gitmeye cesaret edemediği, derin ve karanlık yerlere götürüyor. Günümüzün en cesur polisiye yazarlarından biri.” - Tess Gerritsen “Amerika’nın en iyi polisiye yazarlarından biri.” - The Washington Post Atlanta’nın varlıklı bir semtinde, güzel bir evde genç bir kız hunharca katledilmiş ve başka bir kız da kaçırılmıştır. Genç kızın annesi, cesedin başında bulduğu yabancıyı kendi elleriyle öldürür, ancak öldürdüğü kişi gerçekten kızının katili midir? Ya da öldürülen, kendi kızı mıdır? Olayı inceleyen iki dedektif Will Trent ve Faith Mitchell’ın zamana karşı yarışı başlar. Hem cinayeti aydınlatmak hem de kaçırılan genç kıza, henüz hayattayken ulaşmak zorundadırlar. Paramparça’da Karin Slaughter, iz peşinde geçen üç günün soluk kesen hikâyesini anlatıyor. Genç kuşağın en sevilen polisiye yazarlarından olan Karin Slaughter’ın kitapları dünya çapında 32 dile çevrildi, 30 milyon okura ulaştı. Paramparça, İngiltere ve Hollanda’da çok satanlar listesine bir numaradan girdi ve haftalarca kaldı.

      Will Trent - 2: Versplinterd / druk 10
      4.0
    • 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.

      Blindsighted
      4.1
    • Faithless

      • 544 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      There are many ways to die. But some are more terrifying than others... 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.

      Faithless
      4.1
    • Criminal

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      The past will always find you ... A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. Her blood-soaked body bears a startling similarity to a woman found dead almost 40 years earlier. Soon Special Agent Will Trent finds himself returning to the home he grew up in. And a past that could hold the clue to the killings ...

      Criminal
      4.1
    • The Good Daughter

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The stunning standalone from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Will Trent and Grant County series.

      The Good Daughter
      4.1
    • Grant County - 2: Zoenoffer

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Een duister geheim werpt een schaduw over Grant County als de dertienjarige Jenny zich moedwillig laat neerschieten door politiecommissaris Jeffrey Tolliver. Bij de lijkschouwing doet kinderarts Sara Linton een schokkende ontdekking die wijst in de richting van misbruik. Sara en Jeffrey, die ooit getrouwd waren, werken noodgedwongen samen bij het oplossen van deze zaak. Jeffrey wordt in zijn speurwerk verder bijgestaan door rechercheur Lena Adams, maar is zij wel tegen de spanningen opgewassen? Als de ontknoping nabij is, slaat het noodlot opnieuw toe.

      Grant County - 2: Zoenoffer
      4.0
    • The Last Widow

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      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. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. 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 neighborhood’s 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.

      The Last Widow
      4.1
    • False Witness

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Leigh Collier has crafted a seemingly normal life as a rising defense attorney in Atlanta, devoted mother to her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and successfully co-parenting with her ex-husband Walter during a pandemic. However, beneath this facade lies a childhood marred by secrets, betrayal, and violence. When she receives a call from a partner at her firm to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple rapes, Leigh is hesitant but feels compelled to accept if she wants to retain her position, with trial looming just a week away. Upon meeting the accused, she realizes he specifically requested her representation for a reason—he knows her, and he may be aware of her traumatic past that she has spent years trying to escape. With the stakes now higher than just the case, Leigh finds herself in a precarious situation. The only person who could assist her is her estranged sister Callie, someone Leigh never wanted to involve due to their complicated history. As the threat of long-buried truths emerges, Leigh must confront her past and the potential fallout it could bring to her carefully constructed life.

      False Witness
      4.1
    • Kisscut

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      First the kiss . . . then the blood. Sara Linton, pediatrician and medical examiner in Heartsdale, Georgia, knows only too well the horrors that can hide behind closed doors in a small community. But when a Saturday night argument between teenagers at the local skating rink leads to death—and a subsequent autopsy reveals evidence of ritualistic self-mutilation and long-term abuse—she realizes that true evil is closer than she imagined. Aided by her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and Detective Lena Adams, still traumatized by her brush with a maniac, Sara's investigation is frustrated at every turn by the cold silence of the family and friends of the slain girl. But the truth cannot be hidden forever, as Sara inexorably peels back the many layers of an inhuman outrage that goes far beyond mere murder. For an ominous cloud has settled over the young daughters and sons of Heartsdale—and those who would protect them must act quickly before all innocence here is devoured.

      Kisscut
      4.1
    • Girl, Forgotten

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The stunning new thriller from international #1 bestseller Karin Slaughter

      Girl, Forgotten
      4.0
    • The compelling new standalone novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Unseen and Cop Town. With a missing girl in the news, Claire Scott can't help but be reminded of her sister, who disappeared twenty years ago in a mystery that was never solved. But when Claire begins to learn the truth about her sister, nothing will ever be the same.

      Pretty Girls
      4.0
    • Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton and Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Will Trent have their work cut out for them when the prime suspect in a shoreside murder winds up dead in his holding cell.

      Broken
      4.0
    • Triptych

      Three People With Something to Hide. One Killer With Nothing to Lose.

      When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated. As a one-off killing it's shocking, but when it becomes clear that it's just the latest in a series of similar attacks, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in, and Michael is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - a man he instinctively dislikes. Twenty-four hours later, the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard. And it seems the mystery behind Monroe's death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried ...

      Triptych
      4.0
    • Fractured

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever. When the local police make a misjudgement which not only threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in danger, the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - paired with detective Faith Mitchell, a woman who resents him from their first meeting. But in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer, Will and Faith realise that they must work together to find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest, most privileged communities - before it's too latea

      Fractured
      4.0
    • Doorn in mijn vlees

      • 61 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      It could have been just any night, and they could have just been any two brothers -- but it wasn't, and they weren't. The scene is an Atlanta bar. The music is loud and the dance floor is packed. The good-looking brother picks up a girl. But when dark deeds ensue out in the parking lot, what happens next can only be described in two words: vintage Slaughter.

      Doorn in mijn vlees
      3.3
    • The Suspect

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The hunter becomes the hunted when an expert consultant in a baffling murder case becomes the prime suspect in Michael Robotham's stunning debut thriller. At forty-two, psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin seems to have it all: a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, an adoring daughter. But Joe's snug, happy world is crumbling. Recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, he's dreading the inevitable and all too palpable deterioration of his body and mind. Then, when the police ask for his help in solving the brutal murder of a woman they assume is a prostitute, he's horrified to recognize the victim as a nurse he once worked with, and with whom he had a bit of a past. As Joe begins to suspect that one of his patients may be responsible, the police zero in on him. Michael Robotham possesses the rare ability to create fully believable characters, fashion terrific dialogue, and generate nonstop suspense. Suspect is a powerhouse first novel, intricately crafted and chillingly authentic.

      The Suspect
      3.9
    • The Drowning Man

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Everyone knows that Mickey Carlyle is dead and a man is in prison for her murder. Everyone, that is, except DI Vincent Ruiz who cannot stop searching and hoping. He is discovered one night clinging to buoy in thr River Thames with a bullet in his leg and a bigger hole in his memory. Under investigation by his colleagues and accused of faking amnesia, Ruiz's only hope of unravelling the puzzles is to retrace his steps and relive that night. But there are further dangers lying in wait and other ways for a man to drown

      The Drowning Man
      3.8
    • Veroordeeld / druk 1

      • 474 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Op haar eerste dag bij het politiekorps van Atlanta wordt Kate Murphy direct geconfronteerd met de pesterijen en vooroordelen van haar mannelijke collega’s. Daarbij is het de slechtst mogelijke dag om te beginnen, want een seriemoordenaar die het heeft voorzien op agenten heeft zojuist een nieuw slachtoffer gemaakt en de stad lijkt een broeinest van geweld. Maar Kate is niet de enige vrouw die het moeilijk heeft. Maggie Lawson stapte in de voetsporen van haar oom en haar broer om zichzelf voor hen te bewijzen als politieagent. Als ze ontdekt dat haar broer Jimmie feiten achterhoudt in zijn verklaring over de aanslag besluit ze met haar nieuwe partner Kate op onderzoek uit te gaan. Ondanks de tegenwerkingen van hun mannelijke collega’s volgen Maggie en Kate het spoor van een moordenaar van wie ze zeker weten dat hij opnieuw zal toeslaan. Maar wanneer? Het spoort leidt hen naar de duisterste schaduwen van Atlanta, waar iemand zijn oog op Kate heeft laten vallen...

      Veroordeeld / druk 1
      3.7
    • A captivating new novel about the world of acting from the acclaimed author of Hideous Kinky and Love Falls

      Lucky Break
      3.1
    • A passionate, tender and terrifying story of a mother's fight to protect her daughter

      The New Wilderness
      3.7
    • Gepakt

      • 94 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Special agent Will Trent wacht in een plaatselijk pompstation op zijn ijskoude cola. Maar door Wills ruige undercoveruiterlijk zien de beveiligingscameras en het verveelde personeel iemand anders: de gevaarlijke crimineel Bill Black. De hel die plotseling in de winkel losbreekt stelt Will - en zijn misdadige alter ego - zwaar op de proef. Een agent wordt neergeschoten, een zak met geld valt op de vloer. Een jonge vrouw verdwijnt spoorloos, en de dader vlucht weg in een gehavende pick-up, op de hielen gezeten door Will...

      Gepakt
      3.1
    • The End of the Wasp Season

      • 404 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder. It's a web that will spiral through Alex's own home, the local community, and ultimately right back to a swinging rope, hundreds of miles away. The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel about family's power of damage-and redemption.

      The End of the Wasp Season
      3.4
    • Ongezien

      • 57 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      June Connor heeft nog één dag voor ze sterft. Eén dag waarin ze de confrontatie aan kan gaan met haar verleden.

      Ongezien
      3.4
    • Jimmy is AWOL from the army, but - with characteristic fierceness and terror - he's about to embark on the biggest commitment of his life. Christy is pregnant with Jimmy's child, and she's determined to head home, with or without Jimmy, to face up to her past and prepare for the future. Somehow, barreling across America from Albany to New Orleans to Ohio and Texas in a souped-up Chevy Nova, Christy and Jimmy are transformed from passionate but conflicted lovers into a young family on a magnificent journey.

      Ash Wednesday
      3.4