Karin Slaughter
Author of Blindsighted
About the Author
Karin Slaughter was born in Georgia on January 6, 1971. In 2001, she published her first novel, Blindsighted, which made the Dagger Award shortlist for Best Thriller Debut. She is the author of the Grant County series and the Will Trent series. Her stand-alone novels include Cop Town, Pretty Girls, show more and Pieces of Her. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Karin Slaughter
Meta-Science: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science [JOURNAL] 2007… (2018) 61 copies
Meet the Queen of Suspense, Karin Slaughter [promotional booklet with interview and short stories] (2005) 12 copies
This Is Why We Lied 10 copies
Karin Slaughter 6 Book Collection 8 copies
SOS Title Unknown 4 copies
For the love of Elena 2 copies
The Will Trent Series 5-Book Bundle 2 copies
Knust 1 copy
Dopo quella notte 1 copy
Ton pire cauchemar: Le nouveau thriller de Karin Slaughter - Regardez Will Trent sur Disney + ! 1 copy
Unohdettu tyttö 1 copy
Epäluotettava todistaja 1 copy
La morte e cieca 1 copy
Girl;, Forgetten 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1971-01-06
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Georgia, USA
- Places of residence
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Occupations
- crime novelist
- Agent
- Victoria Sanders (Victoria Sanders and Associates)
- Short biography
- Karin Slaughter (born January 6, 1971) is an American crime writer. The author of eighteen novels, Slaughter has sold more than 35 million copies of her books, which have been published in 37 languages and have debuted at #1 in the United Kingdom, Germany, and The Netherlands. Her first novel, Blindsighted (2001), was published in 27 languages and made the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001. She is also the 2015 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner for novel Cop Town. Her novel, Pieces of Her, was published in 2018. The novel will be adapted into a television series of the same name and it will be released on Netflix.
Slaughter is a library advocate and founded Save the Libraries, a non-profit organization that campaigns to support US public libraries. The Save the Libraries fund has provided over $300,000 to the DeKalb County Public Library in Atlanta, Georgia.
Characters from Slaughter's two main series, Grant County and Will Trent (Atlanta), were brought together in her novels Undone (2009), titled Genesis internationally, and Broken (2010). In these novels, Will Trent and Sara Linton work cases set in Atlanta and Grant County, respectively.
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Wow. Did not expect to like this book this much, I'm kind of a wreck. 4.5 stars.
After That Night (Will Trent, #11) by Karin Slaughter
Sara tries to save the life of a patient (Dani Copper) who has been brutally attacked and left for dead. Unable to save her Dani, Sara decides she is not going to let this rest. Will investigates a case with a few similarities to a horrific event in Sara's life fifteen years prior.
How are the two cases connected and what will be found as they did deeper into this case? With the Help of Faith and Amanda ,secrets are slowly revealed leading to the most disturbing outcome of an unimaginable crime spree.
The story moves at an even pace leading up to a slow burn. With attention to details, engaging dialog, edge-of-your seat chills, intense nail-biting moments. I was engrossed from the start, leading up to the shocking conclusion.
After That Night has been one of Karin Slaughter most compelling stories yet. I highly recommend to those who enjoy procedural crime/thriller/suspense.
*Trigger warnings as mentions of rape/sexual assault and suicide… (more)
Sara tries to save the life of a patient (Dani Copper) who has been brutally attacked and left for dead. Unable to save her Dani, Sara decides she is not going to let this rest. Will investigates a case with a few similarities to a horrific event in Sara's life fifteen years prior.
How are the two cases connected and what will be found as they did deeper into this case? With the Help of Faith and Amanda ,secrets are slowly revealed leading to the most disturbing outcome of an unimaginable crime spree.
The story moves at an even pace leading up to a slow burn. With attention to details, engaging dialog, edge-of-your seat chills, intense nail-biting moments. I was engrossed from the start, leading up to the shocking conclusion.
After That Night has been one of Karin Slaughter most compelling stories yet. I highly recommend to those who enjoy procedural crime/thriller/suspense.
*Trigger warnings as mentions of rape/sexual assault and suicide… (more)
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
The story moves at a steady pace. Very detail oriented pulling me deep into the story. Alternating between Will and Sara kept me on edge, anticipating the next move.
The plot was so realistic, it was (almost) frightening. Truly a thought-provoking , page-turning hard to put down read.
Karin Slaughter knows how to grab your attention and not let go. I highly recommend The Last Widow to those who enjoy thrilling, suspense filled reads.
The story moves at a steady pace. Very detail oriented pulling me deep into the story. Alternating between Will and Sara kept me on edge, anticipating the next move.
The plot was so realistic, it was (almost) frightening. Truly a thought-provoking , page-turning hard to put down read.
Karin Slaughter knows how to grab your attention and not let go. I highly recommend The Last Widow to those who enjoy thrilling, suspense filled reads.
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- Works
- 87
- Also by
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- Popularity
- #350
- Rating
- 3.9
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Calling this a page-turner is an understatement. I don't think I've ever finished a book this long (688 pages aka 14 hours of audio) in such a short period of time. Good character development and storytelling. Lots of twists -- some I saw coming, while others had me blind-sided.
I do need to put a HUGE disclaimer on this book, though. It's very dark and extremely disturbing with graphic descriptions of despicable, unspeakable violence. I didn't sleep well last night after finishing the book, and today while eating my lunch I was thinking back to some specific scenes and had to stop eating. I couldn't finish my meal.
I've heard that this is Slaughter's most graphic book. Knowing that, and also knowing that she wrote a very tight, well-conceived story, I will likely look into her other books. This one was good, but I'm not sure I could stomach another one quite as dark.… (more)