This series follows detective Will Trent and his partner, doctor Sara Linton, as they work to solve complex crimes in Georgia. The stories focus on their personal lives and the traumas that affect their work. The series explores themes of justice, victimhood, and the human psyche. Each case is unique and reveals the dark sides of human nature.
In the city of Atlanta, women are dying at the hands of a cunning killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this madman brings together investigators, bystanders, and one very guilty man in a harrowing drama.
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
"Someone had spent time with her - someone well-practiced in the art of pain ... Three years ago former Grant Country 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. The woman has been hit by a car but it soon becomes clear that she has also been brutally attacked. Her body is covered in old bruises and blood, her face is clawed, there are tears in her skin as if hooks had been embedded in her flesh and a rib has been forcibly removed. When Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Investigation Team returns to the scene of the accident he stumbles on a torture chamber deep underground, and it becomes clear that Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer."--Publisher description.
The fourth Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. 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. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight - he lies dead in his cell, the words 'Not me' scrawled across the walls. Something about his confession doesn't add up and, deeply suspicious of Lena Adams, the detective in charge, Sara immediately calls in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards, Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties and ties that run deep. And the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead...
The fifth Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. Special Agent Faith Mitchell returns home to a nightmare. Her baby daughter Emma has been locked outside, and there's a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house. Inside a man lies dead in a pool of blood. Most worrying of all, her mother is missing. When the Atlanta police arrive, Faith has some difficult questions to answer. But she has some desperate questions of her own. What were the killers searching for? And where is her mother? Suspended from duty, Faith turns to her work partner, Will Trent. Together he and Sara Linton must piece together the fragments of a brutal and complicated case, and catch a vicious murderer with only one thing on his mind. To keep on killing until the truth is finally revealed.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Forty years. Two chillingly similar cases. One good man’s deepest secrets. This “hold-on-to-your hat, nail-biting story” is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder from “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). “Criminal is [Karin] Slaughter at her most visceral and gut-wrenching best.”—HuffPost WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC • This edition includes the short story “Snatched” and an excerpt of Unseen, a Will Trent novel Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom why—until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will’s home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda’s career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life—and it involves the long-held mystery of Will’s birth and parentage. Now these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed. Now these two dauntless investigators must each face down demons from the past . . . or risk unleashing an even greater terror.
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.
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 Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller! The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter, featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton
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.
One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer? Welcome to the luxury McAlpine Lodge... Nestled in the misty mountains, it's the perfect getaway. Until a woman's body is found. Everyone is a suspect. The cruel father. The toxic mother. The bitter family. The silent staff. The suspicious guests. Each of them is guilty of something. But only one is a killer. You'll never guess who... The incredible new thriller - an instant Sunday Times bestseller! 'Everything a thriller should be: dark, multilayered, suspenseful'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Kept me guessing to the end'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'So twisted my head was spinning'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'One of those books you really don't want to put down!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The final reveal delivers an absolute jaw drop moment that punched me straight in the chest'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Definitely keeps you on your toes'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Jaw dropping thriller you don't want to end'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The plot twisted & turned and reached a very unexpected conclusion'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I loved every minute of this'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I stayed up half the night to finish this one'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The entire book is just sheer perfection!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is Why We Lied was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 17/6/24
Get ready for a turbo-charged short read (80 pages) from two of the world's biggest thriller writers - Karin Slaughter and Lee Child.