Fractured
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Als Abigail Campano eines Nachmittages nach Hause kommt, findet sie einen Albtraum vor: ein zerbrochenes Fenster, Blutspuren auf der Treppe, und ihre tote Tochter in den Händen eines bewaffneten Mannes. Der folgende Kampf wird Abigail Campanos Leben ändern.
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Als Abigail Campano eines Nachmittages nach Hause kommt, findet sie einen Albtraum vor: ein zerbrochenes Fenster, Blutspuren auf der Treppe, und ihre tote Tochter in den Händen eines bewaffneten Mannes. Der folgende Kampf wird Abigail Campanos Leben ändern.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAnsley Park is one of Atlanta's most upscale neighborhoods-but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager's lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter's attacker with her bare hands. Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is one of the first on the scene. Trent soon sees something that the Atlanta cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the stunned mother. When another teenage girl goes missing, Trent knows that this case, which started in the best of homes, is about to cut quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.
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Chapter OneWill Trent stared out the window of the car as he listened to his boss yell into her cell phone. Not that Amanda Wagner ever really raised her voice, but she had a certain edge to her tone that had caused more than one of her agents to burst into tears and walk off an active investigation-no mean feat considering the majority of her subordinates at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were men.
"We're at"-she craned her neck, squinting at the street sign-"the Prado and Seventeenth." Amanda paused. "Perhaps you could look up the information on your computer?" She shook her head, obviously not liking what she was hearing.
Will tried, "Maybe we should keep driving around? We might find-"
Amanda covered her eyes with her hand. She whispered into the phone, "How long until the server is back up?" The answer caused her to breathe out a heavy, pronounced sigh.
Will indicated the screen dominating the middle of the wood-lined dashboard. The Lexus had more bells and whistles than a clown's hat. "Don't you have GPS?"
She dropped her hand, considering his question, then began fiddling with some knobs on the dashboard. The screen didn't change, but the air-conditioning whirred higher. Will chuckled, and she cut him off with a nasty look, suggesting, "Maybe while we're waiting for Caroline to find a street map, you can get the owner's manual out of the glove box and read the directions for me."
Will tried the latch, but it was locked. He thought this pretty much summed up his relationship with Amanda Wagner. She often sent him the way of locked doors and expected him to find his way around them. Will liked a good puzzle as much as the next man, but just once, it would have been nice to have Amanda hand him the key.
Or maybe not. Will had never been good at asking for help-especially from someone like Amanda, who seemed to keep a running list in her head of people who owed her favors.
He looked out the window as she berated her secretary for
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not keeping a street map on her person at all times. Will had been born and raised in Atlanta, but didn't often find himself in Ansley Park. He knew that it was one of the city's oldest and wealthiest neighborhoods, where over a century ago, lawyers, doctors and bankers had built their enviable estates so that future lawyers, doctors and bankers could live as they did-safely cloistered in the middle of one of the most violent metropolitan cities this side of the Mason-Dixon. The only thing that had changed over the years was that the black women pushing white babies in strollers were better compensated these days.
With its twisting turns and roundabouts, Ansley seemed designed to confuse, if not discourage, visitors. Most of the streets were tree-lined, broad avenues with the houses tucked up on hills to better look down on the world. Densely forested parks with walking trails and swing sets were everywhere. Some of the walkways were still the original cobblestone. Though all the homes were architecturally different, there was a certain uniformity to their crisply painted exteriors and professionally landscaped lawns. Will guessed this was because even a fixer-upper started at the one million mark. Unlike his own Poncey-Highland neighborhood, which was less than six miles from here, there were no rainbow-colored houses or methadone clinics in Ansley.
On the street, Will watched a jogger stop to stretch and surreptitiously check out Amanda's Lexus. According to the news this morning, there was a code-red smog alert in effect, advising people not to breathe the outside air unless they absolutely had to. No one seemed to be taking that to heart, even as the temperature inched past the one hundred mark. Will had seen at least five joggers since they'd entered Ansley Park. All were women and all so far had fit the stereotype of the perky, perfect soccer mom with their Pilates-toned bodies and bouncy ponytails.
With its twisting turns and roundabouts, Ansley seemed designed to confuse, if not discourage, visitors. Most of the streets were tree-lined, broad avenues with the houses tucked up on hills to better look down on the world. Densely forested parks with walking trails and swing sets were everywhere. Some of the walkways were still the original cobblestone. Though all the homes were architecturally different, there was a certain uniformity to their crisply painted exteriors and professionally landscaped lawns. Will guessed this was because even a fixer-upper started at the one million mark. Unlike his own Poncey-Highland neighborhood, which was less than six miles from here, there were no rainbow-colored houses or methadone clinics in Ansley.
On the street, Will watched a jogger stop to stretch and surreptitiously check out Amanda's Lexus. According to the news this morning, there was a code-red smog alert in effect, advising people not to breathe the outside air unless they absolutely had to. No one seemed to be taking that to heart, even as the temperature inched past the one hundred mark. Will had seen at least five joggers since they'd entered Ansley Park. All were women and all so far had fit the stereotype of the perky, perfect soccer mom with their Pilates-toned bodies and bouncy ponytails.
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Autoren-Porträt von Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter, Jg. 1971, stammt aus Atlanta, Georgia, wo sie bis heute lebt. Mit ihren 'Grant County'-Thrillern um die Gerichtsmedizinerin Sara Linton und den Polizeichef Jeffrey Tolliver hat sie sich in den Olymp der Thrillerautoren geschrieben. 2003 erschien ihr Debütroman 'Belladonna', der Karin Slaughter unmittelbar an die Spitze der internationalen Bestsellerlisten katapultierte. Ihre Bücher sind in 24 Sprachen übersetzt und haben bereits eine Gesamtauflage von mehr als 20 Millionen Exemplaren überschritten.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Karin Slaughter
- 2009, 544 Seiten, Maße: 17,45 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Dell
- ISBN-10: 0440244471
- ISBN-13: 9780440244479
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Heart-pounding . . . Slaughter brings the same raw energy and brutal violence that distinguishes her Grant County Series (Beyond Reach, etc) to this new series with chilling results, while Trent an Mitchell, a pair of complex and deeply flawed heroes, will leave fans clamoring for the next installment."- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Startling twists . . . [The detectives'] quirky relationship-as much as the increasingly intriguing investigation-fuels this fun read."- People
"A superior crime novel . . . [Slaughter is] fiercely focused and one of the most talented young crime novelists."- Washington Post
" Fractured dazzles because it works on the level of both plot and character [and] the combination is unbeatable."-Cleveland Plain-Dealer
"Unexpected twists and intriguing characters."- Entertainment Weekly
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