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Abigail Campano heeft in haar jarenlange huwelijk geleerd om geweld en bedrog te accepteren. Maar als ze bij thuiskomst op een insluiper stuit die met een mes in zijn hand over het dode lichaam van haar dochter gebogen staat, maakt zich een ongekende kracht in haar los. Een kracht die de man fataal wordt.Will Trent van het Georgia Bureau of Investigation krijgt de leiding over het onderzoek, maar al snel nemen de gebeurtenissen een onverwachte wending en blijkt het om veel meer dan een gezinsdrama te gaan.Karin Slaughter laat enkele hoofdrolspelers uit het zeer succesvolle Triptiek terugkeren in een uiterst beklemmend verhaal over gijzeling, misbruik en moord.

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?

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

Without even his own memory for an alibi, will DI Ruiz ever prove his innocence? THE DROWNING MAN is the fantastic new thriller from the author of THE SUSPECT.

In the brilliant sequel to "Field of Blood, " reporter Paddy Meehan is riding high on the success of solving the Brian Wilcox case. Then she meets a mysterious blonde who later turns up dead. Paddy Meehan is thrilled with her new job: working the police beat at the newspaper. Responding to a late night call, she arrives at an elegant villa, where a calm blonde woman with blood on her mouth answers the door. The woman has already convinced the police to leave, and soon Paddy realizes how: she slips fifty dollars into Paddy's hand and begs her to keep the incident-whatever it is-out of the press. The next morning, Paddy sees the lead news story: The woman has been murdered. Soon after, the body of a suicide is pulled from the river. Was the blonde more than just a spoiled trophy wife? Are the two deaths related? In pursuit of answers, Paddy is drawn into a web of violence and greed.

In het Wenen van 1910 pakt een inspecteur van politie het onderzoek naar de moord op een jonge vrouw wetenschappelijk aan, terwijl zijn Hongaarse echtgenote en haar vriendin stiekem met alternatieve methoden naar de dader speuren.

"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.

A savage murder with no apparent motive - DS Morrow's most challenging case brings her work and home lives dangerously close... Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. When wealthy Sarah Erroll dies a violent death at her home in a posh part of Glasgow, the local community is stunned by what appears to be a truly gratuitous act. Heavily pregnant with desperately wanted twins, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate and soon discovers that there is more to Sarah's murder than it first seems. On the other side of town, Thomas Anderson is called into the headmaster's office at his boarding school to be told that his tyrannical father - a banker responsible for the loss of many livelihoods in the recession - has committed suicide by hanging himself from the old oak tree on the lawn of their home. Thomas returns to the family home to find his mother and sister in a state of numb shock. The head of the household is dead, yet their initial reaction is not that of grief, but relief. As Alex Morrow slowly unravels the connections between the two cases, she faces her greatest challenge yet as her work and home lives collide with potentially disastrous consequences.