From New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter, the first novel in her acclaimed Grant County Series.

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.

Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver,

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When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser," the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay...

Siddalee, a grown woman living in New York, reminisces about her childhood growing up in a dysfunctional Southern family.

Enduring the Great Depression from within a tent during a Vermont summer, Henry struggles to support his two young children and considers a proposition from a wealthy neighbor, who would hire the children as companions for her homebound son.

Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

Over the years, Maude Chambliss gradually comes to cherish the people and spirit of Retreat, a colony which is the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family.

In this chilling tale of the supernatural, sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they've turned into a guest house. But when a mysterious young man enters their lives, the sisters are forced to confront a dark past filled with forbidden passions and deadly secrets. Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female), Eric Stoltz (Mask) and Judith Ivey (The Woman in Red) star in this `Southern Gothic' shocker,...

Austin is a distinguished Bostonian with a WASP pedigree, an unbeatable squash game, and a frightening secret. After he meets up with his old flame Ruth, they begin a comic and painful voyage of self-discovery. Directed by Robert Robinson Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring: Valorie Armstrong as The Other Women David Dukes as Austin Judith Ivey as Ruth David Hyde-Pierce as The Other...

Catherine Sloper (Jennifer Jason Leigh), favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, is a wallflower of another age. the daughter of a wealthy and distinguished physician (Albert Finney), she has forever been the victim of her father's callous remarks that she possesses none of her deceased mother's loveliness, charm or finesse. Under her father's oppression, Catherine is a shy and awkward young woman tottering into spinsterhood - until she is suddenly...

Larry and Warren try to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple.