Karin Slaughter has gained a worldwide reputation for intense and often shocking thrillers. She’s sold more than 40 million copies of them. But none to date has gotten her wider recognition than Pieces of Her, the bestselling 2018 novel in which she introduced Andrea Oliver. The novel...
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Karin Slaughter is best known for the Grant County and Will Trent series of crime novels and her bestselling standalone thrillers, Cop Town, Pretty Girls, and The Good Daughter. All fall neatly within the mystery and suspense genre. With Pieces of Her, Slaughter’s most recent standalone...
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Karin Slaughter writes disturbing psychological thrillers that invariably feature strong female characters, complex criminal behavior, and a sometimes cringeworthy level of violence. Her work includes two series of mystery novels and several critically acclaimed standalone thrillers. Slaughter is...
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Indelible, the fourth novel in Karin Slaughter’s Grant County series, takes Dr. Sara Linton and Chief Jeffrey Tolliver back more than a decade to the time before they married. Though the contemporary action is set in Grant County after their divorce, flashbacks to that earlier time are the key to...
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Karin Slaughter’s first novel in the Grant County series, Blindsighted, was published in almost 30 languages and made the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger Award shortlist for “Best Thriller Debut” of 2001. In addition to the six-book...
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The Good Daughter, Karin Slaughter’s new thriller, her nineteenth novel, is set in rural Georgia, like most of the Grant County and Will Trent novels which established her reputation. She was born there and now lives in Atlanta—and it shows. Slaughter’s characters are clearly native to...
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Detective Lena Adams of the Grant County Police is in trouble again. On a visit to her home town, she witnesses the gruesome murder of a friend on the back seat of a car she has been forced to drive. While sitting in shock near the scene of the murder, she is arrested for the crime. The man who...
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It’s 2006. More than 20 years earlier a 15-year-old girl had been viciously raped, murdered, and mutilated in an Atlanta suburb. Her date that evening, John Spence, also 15, was tried as an adult and sentenced for 22 years to life in a maximum security prison. John has now been paroled and...
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Dr. Sara Linton and Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver take center stage once again in Faithless, the fifth in Karin Slaughter’s excellent Grant County series of bestselling thrillers. It’s a novel about a religious cult. They had been married, but Sara ended things when she discovered...
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Ever since the publication of her first novel in the Grant County series, Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter has been selling thrillers by the millions. A Faint Cold Fear, the third of six books in the series, continues the saga of pediatrician and pathologist Dr. Sara Linton; her off-again, on-again...
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If life in the rural South is anything like the picture Karin Slaughter presents about the small towns of Grant County, Georgia, I have to count myself lucky that I live thousands of miles away. It would seem that it’s exceedingly difficult for even the most reserved, law-abiding citizens to...
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Pretty Girls is the story of three sisters, a marriage, and a gruesome crime. The characters are pretty. The story isn’t. The fulcrum of this tale is the long-ago disappearance of nineteen-year-old Julia Carroll, the oldest of three beautiful blonde sisters. The sheriff and police believe...
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I sometimes find books with one-word titles frustrating. In the course of reading them, I may find myself wondering how on earth the title connects to the story. Sometimes I can’t figure it out at all. Unseen is one of those titles that continues to puzzle me. Despite this minor flaw (if in...
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A review of Criminal, by Karin Slaughter. @@@@ (4 out of 5). A deeply satisfying crime novel set in Atlanta, with the action shifting repeatedly from the present day to 1975 and back again.
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A review of Blindsighted, by Karin Slaughter. @@@@ (4 out of 5). Blindsighted, set in rural Grant County in Southern Georgia, focuses on Dr. Sara Linton, the 30-something town pediatrician and part-time coroner; her ex-husband, Jeffrey Tolliver, who is Chief of Police; and Lena Adams, a young detective.
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A review of Broken: A Novel of Suspense, by Karin Slaughter. @@@@ (4 out of 5). Broken, last year’s entry in Karin Slaughter’s decade-long series of crime thrillers set in her native Georgia, brings together two of her leading characters, Dr. Sara Linton and Will Trent.Karin Slaughter, just 40 years old now, has been publishing best-selling thrillers for little more than a decade. I’m looking forward to a lot more from this talented Southern writer.
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.