"Will Trent es un brillante agente del Bureau de Investigacion del Estado de Georgia. Ahora enamorado, comienza a cargar con un pasado dificil a cuestas. De repente, una estudiante universitaria ha desaparecido y Will es inexplicablemente separado del caso por su supervisora y mentora Amanda Wagner. Cuarenta anos atras, en el verano en el que Will nacio, Amanda estaba dando sus primeros pasos en la el Departamento de Policia de Atlanta y uno de sus primeros casos fue la investigacion de un crimen brutal en uno de los barrios mas peligrosos de la ciudad. Amanda y su companera, Evelyn, parecen ser las unicas que realmente se preocupan por intentar esclarecer lo ocurrido. Ahora, el caso que lanzo la carrera de Amanda, subitamente ha vuelto al presente, mezclandose con un misterio relacionado con el nacimiento y la familia de Will Trent. Ahora ambos investigadores tendran que enfrentarse a los demonios del pasado, "--Amazon.com.

A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past.

Karin Slaughter's new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man's deepest secrets. 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 Amanda's motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before--when Will's father was imprisoned for murder--this was his home. Flash back nearly forty years. In the summer Will Trent was born, Amanda Wagner is going to college, making Sunday dinners for her father, taking her first steps in the boys' club that is the Atlanta Police Department. One of her first cases is to investigate a brutal crime in one of the city's wors

A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past.

"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 Amanda's motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. 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."--Back cover.

The collection includes: Maria Marten, Or The Murder In The Red Barn; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; The Crimes of Stephen Hawke; It's Never Too Late To Mend; The Ticket of Leave Man; Crimes At The Dark House; Sexton Blake and The Hooded Terror.