Stories by @bloodshot05

The Last Widow

One night, a scientist from the CDC is grabbed by unknown assailants. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who’s vanished into thin air. 1 month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast, followed by a 2nd. 1 of Atlanta’s busiest & most important neighborhoods has been bombed, the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, & the CDC. Medical examiner Sara Linton & her partner Will Trent, rush to the scene & into the heart of a deadly conspiracy. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her & prevent a massacre, by putting his own life on the line for the woman & the country he loves.

Pieces of Her

Andrea Oliver's mother, Laura, is the perfect small-town mom. Laura lives a quiet life, she's a pillar of the community, a speech therapist, business owner & everyone's friend. When Andrea is caught in a random violent attack at a shopping mall, Laura intervenes & acts in a way that is unrecognizable to Andrea. It's like Laura is a completely different person, because 30 years ago, she was. Laura is hailed as a hero for her actions at the mall but 24 hours later she is in hospital, shot by an intruder, What is Andrea's mother trying to hide?

The Good Daughter

28 years ago, Charlotte & Samantha Quinn's happy smalltown family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father, Pikeville's notorious defense attorney, devastated. It left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. 28 years later, Charlotte has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself. But when violence comes to Pikeville again, & a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized, Charlotte & Samantha are plunged into a nightmare.

Pretty Girls

Twenty years ago Claire Scott & Lydia Delgado's older sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went, no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved & it tore their family apart. Now another girl has disappeared, & it seems that she might not be the only one. Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked. But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same.

Cop Town

The year is 1974 & Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the police force will also be her last. For life is anything but easy in the male-dominated world of the Atlanta Police Department. Kate isn't the only woman on the force who is finding things tough. Maggie Lawson followed her uncle & brother into the ranks to prove her worth in their cynical eyes. When Maggie & Kate become partners, & are sidelined in the search for the city's cop killer, they decide to pursue their own line of investigation.

The Kept Woman

Will Trent is brought in on a case of a dead man whom is identified as an ex-cop. Studying the body, Sara Linton the GBI’s newest medical examiner realizes the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim who has vanished & who will die soon if she isn’t found. Evidence soon links a wealthy athlete protected by the most expensive lawyers, & a woman from Will's dark past.

Unseen

Will Trent's latest case brings him to Macon, GA, & has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked & he has caught the eye of a drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But undercover, Will finds his demons catching up with him. Although she has no idea where Will has gone, or why, Will's girlfriend, Sara Linton herself has come to Macon because of a cop shooting. A cop that's a relative of Sara's...

Criminal

Will Trent, brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, newly in love, when a local college student goes missing, & Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor 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 as well.

Fallen

Faith Mitchell's mother isn't answering her phone. Her front door is open. There's a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother's house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn't see is her mother

Broken

When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own & far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. He doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case.

Genesis

When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent & his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds & their own secrets, Sara, Will, & Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman & his next victim.

Fractured

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Will Trent tracks the monster, more likely, the pair of monsters who raped and killed one teenage girl and abducted another.

Triptych

In the city of Atlanta, women are dying at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread & whose arrogance & explosive temper are threatening his career. And Will Trent, a tough investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who has a personal connection with the killer's latest victim.

Beyond Reach

Sara Linton, resident medical examiner in Grant County, Georgia, has plenty of hardship to deal with, including defending herself in a heartbreaking malpractice suit. So when her husband, Police chief Jeffery Tolliver, learns that his friend & coworker detective Lena Adams has been arrested for murder & needs Sara's help, she is not sure she can handle the pressure of it all. But soon Sara & Jeffery are sitting through evidence, peeling back the layers of a mystery that grows darker by the day.

Faithless

A victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods, then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton & Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. As Jeffrey & Sara move further down a trail of shocking surprises & hidden passions, neither is prepared for the most stunning discovery of all: the identity of a killer who is more evil and dangerous than anyone could have guessed.

Indelible

An officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station & police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, & Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies.

A Faint Cold Fear

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

Kisscut

Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at 1st to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime

Blindsighted

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated. 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, leads the investigation, a trail that grows increasingly macabre when another woman is found crucified a few days later. But he's got more than a serial killer on his hands, for the county's sole female detective, Lena Adams, the first victim's sister, wants to serve her own justice. But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer.

Origin

Robert Langdon, Harvard symbologist, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a 40-year-old billionaire & futurist. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s 1st students at Harvard, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough, one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, & Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate the password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.