Karin Slaughter

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 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.

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. And the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead...  Book 4 of series.

A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. But there's something strange about this particular slaying. Her blood-soaked body bears a chilling similarity to a woman found dead almost 40 years earlier. Could it be the work of a long-dormant serial killer? 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...  Book 7 of series.

On an ordinary spring day, Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returns home to a nightmare. Expecting to find her mother minding Faith's new baby daughter Emma, she is horrified to discover Emma locked in the shed, her mother's safe open, her gun missing and a trail of blood to the front door.

Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house to a scene of carnage. It has been torn apart and a man lies dead in a pool of blood. She stumbles across two more intruders, and within minutes they too are shot dead. And when the Atlanta police force turns up, Faith has some difficult questions to answer.  

With Faith suspended from duty, Will, together with the help of Dr Sara Linton, must piece together the fragments of a brutal and complicated case…  Book 5 of series.

Sara Linton, working as a doctor in Atlanta, is starting to piece her life together. But when a wounded young woman is brought into the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of terror. When Special Agent Will Trent returns to the scene of the accident, he stumbles on a torture chamber. Sara's patient is just the first victim of a sick, sadistic killer and Will and his partner Faith Mitchell find themselves at the centre of a grisly murder hunt.  Book 3 of series.

Charlotte Quinn has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer - the ideal good daughter. But a violent tragedy unleashes terrible memories that she's spent years trying to suppress. And the shocking truth about a crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won't stay buried forever…  Book 2 of series.

Sara and Jeffrey are first on the scene when Jeffrey's best friend, Robert, shoots dead an intruder. Sara is not convinced by Robert's story. 12 years later, they are caught up in a brutal attack. It seems that the past is catching up with them. X rated, contains offensive language.  Book 4 of series.

When the body of an ex-cop is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse, Special Agent Will Trent knows this could be the most devastating case of his career. Because an unexpected discovery at the scene reveals a personal link to Will's troubled past.  Book 10 of series.

It begins with an abduction. Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves a shopping mall. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but it’s as if she disappeared into thin air. A month later, the fallout will lead medical examiner Sara Linton and her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to the terrible truth about what really happened to Michelle, and to a remote compound where a radical group has murder in mind…  Book 12 of series.

Andrea Oliver knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's a pillar of the community; she knows she's never kept a secret in her life. But she's hiding something.... Then one day, a trip to the mall explodes into a shocking act of violence, and Andy suddenly finds herself on a desperate race to uncover the secrets of her mother's past. Unless she can, there may be no future for either of them....  Book 1 of series.

With a missing girl in the news, Claire Scott can’t help but be reminded of her sister, Julia, 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.

FBI Special Agent Will Trent's instinct is put to the test. A short story from the No.1 bestseller.

On assignment at Atlanta's busy airport Special Agent Will Trent is forced to make a split-second decision. But is it the right one?  Book 6 of series.

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 ...  Book 1 of series.

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.  Book 9 of series.