Karin Slaughter is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 35 million copies sold across the globe, her twenty novels include the Grant County and Will Trent books, as well as the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and the instant New York Times bestselling novels Pretty Girls, The Good Daughter, Pieces of Her, and The Last Widow. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project--a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta. Her standalone novel Pieces of Her is in production with Netflix, starring Toni Collette, and the Grant County and Will Trent series are in development for television.
An all-time HQ fave . . . it gets dark. This one goes out to the
twisty thriller fans.
--theSkimm on The Silent WIfe
As one can only expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller, her
latest book The Silent Wife comes with just the right
amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and
shrill that will keep longtime fans of her Will Trent series on
their toes--and welcome new readers to the
party.--Parade on The Silent
Wife
Fiction doesn't get any better than this."--Jeffery
Deaver, New York Times bestselling author
If you want to be chilled to the bone, pick up Slaughter's latest,
The Silent Wife . . . it's absolutely
mesmerizing.--Popsugar on The Silent
Wife
Karin Slaughter knows how to craft a character. . . . Slaughter's
fans know exactly what they're in for when they pick up one of her
thrillers, but there's nothing formulaic about them--that
spine-tingling chill her stories evoke is largely
organic.--The Big
Thrill on The Silent
Wife
One of the most popular series in current crime reading . . . love
it for the interesting detective work, but also for the evolution
in Sara's life. . . . Irresistible.--The Globe and
Mail on The Silent Wife
Slaughter delivers an unflinching, deeply empathetic exploration of
the stigma surrounding rape and the enduring trauma suffered by its
survivors.--Publishers Weekly on The
Silent Wife
Slaughter has said she wants to make violence against women real to
people who don't get it. She succeeds in The Silent Wife .
. . [readers] will eat up. --Washington
Post on The Silent Wife
Splendid . . . When it comes to intricate plotting nothing daunts
Slaughter and she's in prime form.--The Toronto
Star on The Silent Wife
The emotionally sophisticated characters work through the brutality
of their jobs in this dynamic psychological thriller and police
procedural that will please readers of Slaughter's "Grant County"
series. For fans of Meg Gardiner, David Baldacci, and Carrie
Smith.--Library
Journal on The Silent
Wife
"[The Last Widow] does what all great Slaughter books do:
keeps you on the edge of your seat. It's a chilling whodunit for
our times."--Parade on The Last
Widow
"Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivaled among thriller
writers, and if you haven't yet read her, this is the
moment."--Michael Connelly, New York
Times bestselling author
"Her talent is the equivalent of an Edgar Allan Poe or a Nathaniel
Hawthorne . . . An exemplary storyteller, weaving her words with
skill and intelligence. She will be recognized as one of the great
talents of the 21st century and will hold an honored place in the
realm of world literature."--The Huffington
Post
"It's Slaughter's prodigious gifts of characterization that make
her stand out among thriller writers."--Washington
Post
"Slaughter adds depth to her best-selling series with the
investigations of old and current cases, while also advancing the
key personal relationship. Another slam
dunk."--Booklist (starred review) on
The Silent Wife
"Slaughter's work is like a professional athlete coming to the
playground to show the kids how it's done. With her themes,
tensions and metaphors, she has a talent for classic literature
that is often missing in recent fiction."--RT Book
Reviews
"There's never a dull moment in Georgia with Karin Slaughter on the
literary rampage."--Washington Poston
The Last Widow
"One of the boldest thriller writers working today."--Tess
Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author
"With a well-written, intriguing plot and an edge-of-the-seat
ending, this is sure to keep readers up late into the
night."--Library Journal (starred review)
on The Last Widow
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