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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.…

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.

It begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but it's as if she disappeared into thin air. A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is at lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. But the serenity of the summer's day is broken by the wail of sirens.

Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues - and the college authorities are keen to avoid a scandal - but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara, the violence strikes far too close to home.

Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-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.

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. Incarcerated in the ground, all the initial evidence indicates that she has, quite literally, been scared to death. But as Sara embarks on the autopsy, something even more horrifying comes to light. Something which shocks even Sara.

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.

UNA SERIE NETFLIX! Madre. Eroina. Bugiarda. Assassina. E se la persona che credi di conoscere meglio al mondo si rivelasse una perfetta sconosciuta? Sulla scia dei successi internazionali di Quelle belle ragazze e La figlia modello , Karin Macellazione torna con un nuovo romanzo ad alto tasso di azione, suspense e adrenalina... E, se possibile, con una storia ancora più elettrizzante di quelle scritte finora. Andrea sa tutto di sua madre Laura.

Dopo quella notte, niente è più stato lo stesso. 15 anni fa, dopo che una serata di festa è stata distrutta da una violenta aggressione, Sara Linton ha deciso di rivoluzionare la sua vita. Adesso è una dottoressa di successo, fidanzata con l’uomo che ama. Il passato è definitivamente alle spalle. O almeno così spera. Finché una sera, durante un turno in pronto soccorso, Sara viene chiamata a visitare una ragazza che è stata brutalmente assalita.

Una feroce storia di violenza sulle donne, che ricorda la Millennium Trilogy di Larsson. Claire e Lydia sono sorelle che non si parlano da più di vent'anni. I loro rapporti si sono interrotti quando Claire ha deciso di sposare Paul, affermato architetto, e di diventare la sua sofisticata moglie trofeo. Lydia, invece, è una madre single, ha una storia con un ex detenuto, e fatica ad arrivare alla fine del mese.

El descubrimiento de un asesinato en una obra abandonada conduce a Will Trent y al Georgia Bureau of Investigation a un caso que se vuelve más peligroso cuando el cadáver es identificado como el de un expolicía. Tras hacer la autopsia, Sara Linto —la nueva forense del GBI y amante de Will— descubre que la ingente cantidad de sangre encontrada no pertenece a la víctima. Con seguridad, un rastro de sangre que sale fuera de la escena del crimen indica que hay otra víctima, una mujer que ha desaparecido… a la que si no encuentran pronto, morirá.

Beth Lomas thought she knew her late husband. But this one small word, written on the back of a discarded envelope and left on their kitchen table, convinces the police that Oscar took his own life. As the police announce they are not seeking anyone else in connection with Oscar's death, Beth is convinced that there is more to the story. As she sets out to discover what really happened, Beth uncovers shocking truths about the man she thought she knew better than anyone. 

Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart. The police tell her that her daughter, Elspeth, is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing. When Maggie begs to see her husband, Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of their daughter's funeral. What really happened that day at the river? Where is Maggie's husband? And why can't she shake the suspicion that somewhere, somehow, her daughter is still alive?