Sent to Macon for an undercover mission to infiltrate a drug and prostitution ring, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Will Trent hides the facts about his latest assignment from his girlfriend, Sara Linton, when the stakes prove higher than any he has yet encountered.
Troubled by a rocky marriage and the recent loss of his partner, Atlanta detective Michael Ormewood launches an investigation into the savage murder of a local woman, but for ex-con John Shelley, desperate to prove his innocence, the nightmare has just begun. Reprint.
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
"In the tower of Count Stelli in the ancient city-state of Agora, two children meet, apparently by chance. At first, their only goal is survival: In Agora, everything can be bought and sold, debt is death, and Mark and Lily must barter their labor for their lives. But they are destined to fulfill the prophecy of the secret Midnight Charter devised by Agora's founders. What is the Charter? How and why are members of the city's powerful elite involved--and who among them can Lily and Mark trust?"--Page 2 of cover.
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.
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.
When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim.
