Books by Karin Slaughter and Complete Book Reviews

Karin Slaughter, Delacorte, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-34197-4
Slaughter brings her Grant County and Atlanta characters together for a second time (after Undone) in this superb thriller. When Dr. Sara Linton returns home to Grant County, Ga., for Thanksgiving, she hopes to steer clear of the police, especially...
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Karin Slaughter. Delacorte, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-52820-9
At the start of Slaughter's gripping third novel to combine characters from her two Georgia-based series (after Broken), Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Faith Mitchell arrives at the Atlanta house of her widowed mother, Evelyn, to find serious
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Karin Slaughter. Delacorte, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-52850-6
At the outset of Slaughter’s tense fourth thriller to combine characters from her two crime series (after 2011’s Fallen), life is running smoothly for agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as he eases into a new relationship with...
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Karin Slaughter. Delacorte, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-53947-2
Bestseller Slaughter’s tense and densely plotted thriller, the fifth to merge her Atlanta-based characters with those in Georgia’s fictional Grant County (after 2012’s Criminal), focuses on stubborn Lena Adams, a Macon police detective and the woman
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Morrow $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-17459-0
Aptly named novelist Slaughter (Blindsighted) brings back her horribly scarred cast of Grant County, Ga., cops and coroners for more murder, mayhem and horrific sexual violence. Pathologist Sara Linton, who has been dating her ex-husband, police...
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Karin Slaughter. Delacorte, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-54749-1
Violent crime, police politics, and race relations all figure in this scintillating standalone set in 1970s Atlanta, from bestseller Slaughter (Martin Misunderstood). Maggie Lawson comes from a disjointed, emotionally disconnected family of law...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-242905-6
Claire Scott, the heroine of this gripping standalone from bestseller Slaughter (Cop Town), thought she knew everything about her architect husband, Paul, but her posh Atlanta life is turned upside down when he’s fatally stabbed in an alley and she...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-243021-2
Dale Harding, the murder victim at the center of bestseller Slaughter’s exciting if flawed sixth novel starring Will Trent and Dr. Sara Linton (after 2013’s Unseen), was a retired (and dirty) Atlanta cop. Harding’s body turns up in a nightclub...
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Morrow $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-688-17457-6
Billed as "Thomas Harris Meets Patricia Cornwell" and heralded by much advance hoopla in industry magazines, this long-anticipated launching of a scheduled three-book series featuring an attractive Georgia university town pediatrician-coroner
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Morrow $24.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-688-17458-3
In the coldly captivating tradition of Cornwell and Reichs, Slaughter (Blindsighted; Kisscut) returns to Grant County, Ga., to offer a third installment in the adventures of smalltown pediatrician and part-time medical examiner Sara Linton. Called...
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Morrow $25.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-06-056710-1
Complex characters with credible relationships underpin this gripping prequel to Slaughter's Blindsighted (2001). Georgia pediatrician/medical examiner Sara Linton is visiting her ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, when two malevolent...
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Delacorte $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-33945-2
Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton returns in Slaughter's Grant County crime thriller series (Indelible ), and this time she's hot on the trail of a demented killer who buries teenage girls alive. Out in the woods chatting about past...
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Delacorte $25 (392p) ISBN 978-0-385-33946-9
Bestseller Slaughter departs from her Grant County crime series (Faithless , etc.) with a stand-alone thriller notable mainly for a jolting mid-book twist similar to one Ira Levin used with more subtlety in A Kiss Before Dying . The case of a...
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Delacorte $25 (404p) ISBN 978-0-385-33947-6
At the start of bestseller Slaughter's bone-chilling sixth thriller in her Grant County, Ga., crime series (after 2005's Faithless ), Dr. Sara Linton, the county's resident pediatrician and medical examiner, is mired in a devastating...
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Karin Slaughter, Author , read by Joyce Bean. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (
, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $38.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4233-3322-7
Slaughter's newest novel to feature perennially distressed pediatrician/coroner Sara Linton; her ultra-macho, guilt-ridden husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver; and self-destructive loose cannon detective Lena Adams is so dark at times one gets...
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Delacorte $25 (388p) ISBN 978-0-385-34195-0
At the start of bestseller Slaughter's heart-pounding sequel to 2006's Triptych , wealthy housewife Abigail Campano returns home one day to Atlanta's posh Ansley Park neighborhood to find a dead girl in the mansion's upstairs...
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Karin Slaughter, Author , read by Wayne Knight. BBC Audiobooks America $19.95 (
, unabridged, two CDs, 2 hrs., $19.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-60283-434-7
Who'd have thought that the disrespect and indignities Wayne Knight suffered as Newman on the Seinfeld series would have been just a warmup for the silly, tasteless and at times repugnant, racist and unfunny material that Slaughter has...
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Karin Slaughter, Author . Delacorte $25 (436p) ISBN 978-0-385-34196-7
Bestseller Slaughter brings together characters from her two series for the first time with electrifying results. Dr. Sara Linton, who lost her husband in 2007’s Beyond Reach , has left rural Grant County for a new life in an underfunded...
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Karin Slaughter, read by Natalie Ross, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., 34 mins., $38.99 ISBN 978-1-4233-4239-7
Natalie Ross brings an earnest performance to her reading of Slaughter’s latest thriller, a sequel to 2009’s Undone, a complex tale of murder and lies. Dr. Sara Linton reluctantly returns to Grant County, Ga., where her chief of police husband was...
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Karin Slaughter, read by Kathleen Early. AudioGO, unabridged, 13 CDs, 15.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-293-5
Slaughter’s latest brings to light heretofore-unknown aspects of the lives of Will Trent—an agent at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation—and his boss, deputy director Amanda Wagner. When a young college student goes missing, the circumstances...
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Karin Slaughter, Author, Joyce Bean, Read by Brilliance Audio $39.25 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-3325-8
Slaughter's newest novel to feature perennially distressed pediatrician/coroner Sara Linton; her ultra-macho, guilt-ridden husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver; and self-destructive loose cannon detective Lena Adams is so dark at times one gets...
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Karin Slaughter, Author, Phil Gigante, Read by , read by Phil Gigante. Brilliance Audio $32.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-4221-2
Murder, kidnapping, mistaken identity and deeply buried secrets make Slaughter’s latest audiobook an emotional roller-coaster ride of mystery and suspense. Affluent Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano, arrives home to find a man standing over...
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Karin Slaughter, Author, Natalie Ross, Read by , read by Natalie Ross. Brilliance $38.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-4230-4
Slaughter thrusts her series heroine, Dr. Sara Linton, into a serial killer case being investigated by the author's newer series protagonists, detectives Will Trent and Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Natalie Ross...
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $27.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-243024-3
In the prologue of this gripping standalone from Thriller Award–finalist Slaughter (Pretty Girls), Zach Culpepper and an accomplice break into the Pikeville, Ga., home of attorney Rusty Quinn, who has become an unpopular figure for his advocacy on...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-333672-8
A honeymoon turns into a grisly locked-room mystery in Slaughter’s harrowing 12th outing for Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent (following After That Night). Will and his bride, medical examiner Sara Linton, plan to celebrate at...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $32 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-315778-1
Bestseller Slaughter’s disappointing 11th entry featuring Georgia investigator Will Trent (after 2020’s The Silent Wife) traces the fallout from a sexual assault. Doctor Sara Linton (from Slaughter’s Grant County series) is working at Atlanta’s...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-285811-5
Bestseller Slaughter’s gripping follow-up to 2018’s Pieces of Her takes Andrea Oliver, a newly minted U.S. marshal, and her partner, Deputy Leonard Bible, to Longbill Beach, Del., to protect federal judge Esther Vaughn, who has received a series of...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $28.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-285809-2
In 1998, teen sisters Callie and Leigh, the heroines of this superb thriller from bestseller Slaughter (The Silent Wife), murder Buddy Waleski, who sexually abused them for years while they babysat his son, Trevor, in Chicago. They leave the Waleski
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-285810-8
In bestseller Slaughter’s macabre 10th thriller featuring Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent (after 2019’s The Last Widow), Will and his partner, Faith Mitchell, are investigating a prison murder when inmate Daryl Nesbitt extends an...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-285808-5
In bestseller Slaughter’s harrowing ninth novel featuring Sara Linton and her boyfriend, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent (after 2016’s The Kept Woman), Sara and Will are visiting her family in the Atlanta suburbs when explosions...
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Karin Slaughter. Morrow, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-243027-4
At the start of this gripping standalone from bestseller Slaughter (The Good Daughter), down-in-the-dumps Andrea “Andy” Oliver and her mother, Laura, a gifted speech therapist, meet for lunch at the Rise-n-Dine in her hometown of Belle Isle, Ga., to
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ARTICLES
  • Girls and Violence
  • PW Talks with Karin Slaughter
  • BEA 2015: Karin Slaughter: Reading on a Roller-coaster
  • In My Own Words: What Crime Leaves Behind
  • BookExpo 2019: Karin Slaughter Is Killing the Crime Market
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