Karin Slaughter

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2001
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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About the Author

Karin Slaughter was born on January 6th 1971 in the USA. She grew up in a small south Georgia town and has been writing novels and short stories since she was a child. Her first acclaimed novel Blindsighted published in 2001 became an international best-seller and was published in 30 languages. She has sold more than 16 million books world wide. She currently lives in Atlanta.

Full Series List in Order

Andrea Oliver

1 - Pieces of Her (Aug-2018)
2 - Girl, Forgotten (Aug-2022)

Charlie Quinn

0.5 - Last Breath: A Novella (Jul-2017)
1 - The Good Daughter (Aug-2017)

Grant County

1 - Blindsighted (Sep-2001)
2 - Kisscut (Sep-2002)
3 - A Faint Cold Fear (Sep-2003)
4 - Indelible (Jul-2004)
5 - Faithless (Aug-2005)
6 - Beyond Reach // Skin Privilege (Aug-2007)
7 - Fractured (Aug-2008)
8 - Undone (Jul-2009)
9 - Broken (Jul-2010)

Pretty Girls

0.5 - Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes: A Novella (Aug-2015)
1 - Pretty Girls (Sep-2015)

Will Trent

1 - Triptych (Aug-2006)
2 - Fractured (Aug-2008)
3 - Genesis (Jul-2009)
3 - Undone (Jul-2009)
4 - Broken (Jul-2010)
5 - Fallen (Jul-2011)
5.5 - Snatched (Oct-2013)
6 - Criminal (Jul-2012)
6.5 - Busted (Jun-2013)
7 - Unseen (Jul-2013)
8 - The Kept Woman (Sep-2016)
8.5 - Cleaning the Gold (May-2019)
9 - The Last Widow (Aug-2019)
10 - The Silent Wife (Jul-2020)
11 - After That Night (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Blindsighted

    Grant County - 1

    A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work become...

  • Kisscut

    Grant County - 2

    A CHILLING AND POWERFUL TALE OF SMALL-TOWN EVIL FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLINDSIGHTED. Sara Linton, pediatrician and medical examiner in Heartsdale, Georgia, knows only too well the horrors that can hide ...

  • A Faint Cold Fear

    Grant County - 3

    An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent "su...

  • The Blessing of Brokenness

    in Like A Charm

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...

  • Rootbound

    in Like A Charm

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...

  • Indelible

    Grant County - 4

    Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors--including a class of grade-school children and medi...

  • Faithless

    Grant County - 5

    Internationally bestselling crime writer Karin Slaughter brings back her two most fascinating and complex characters--medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver--in a heart-pounding tale of faith, doubt, and murder...

  • Triptych

    Will Trent - 1

    In the city of Atlanta, women are dying -- at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives,...

  • Beyond Reach // Skin Privilege

    Grant County - 6

    In a stifling hospital room in a small Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits, silent and angry--the only suspect in a horrific murder. Soon, a hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver will get the call that his young detective has been arr...



  • Neccessary Women

    in Penguin Book of Crime Stories

    International bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his razor-sharp instinct for crime writing to this unique anthology featuring the cream of crime fiction. With a selection of 15 stories featuring established bestsellers and new voices, The Pengu...

  • Martin Misunderstood

    Once upon a time there was a man named Martin.

    Martin Reed is thoroughly average in every way. So how has he wound up with such a pathetic existence? Martin has no friends, no lovers, and no respect. Working as a senior accountant at Souther...

  • Fractured

    Grant County - 7
    Will Trent - 2

    Now the #1 internationally bestselling author returns to the damaged landscape she knows so well in a bold new novel--at once a powder keg of suspense, a gritty portrait of a cop's life, and a searing exploration of a shocking crime and its aftermath...

  • Genesis

    Will Trent - 3

    In the trauma center of Atlanta's busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city's poor, wounded, and unlucky--and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one instant, Sara is thrust into a frantic police inv...

  • Undone

    Grant County - 8
    Will Trent - 3

    In this suspense masterpiece, Karin Slaughter weaves together the powerful human stories of three unforgettable characters from her New York Times bestselling novels Faithless and Fractured, who collide here for the first time in an electrifying race...

  • Broken

    Grant County - 9
    Will Trent - 4

    Karin Slaughter's spellbinding new novel features the return of her most beloved characters and introduces memorable new ones in an unforgettable story of raw emotions, deadly betrayal, and the most painful of human truths. When Special Agent Will T...

  • Fallen

    Will Trent - 5

    There's no police training stronger than a cop's instinct. 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 ...

  • Thorn in My Side

    It could have been just any night, and they could have just been any two brothers--but it wasn't, and they weren't. The scene is an Atlanta bar. The music is loud and the dance floor is packed. The good-looking brother picks up a girl. But when dark ...

  • The Unremarkable Heart

    in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

    When a different kind of justice is needed -- swift, effective, and personal -- a new type of avenger must take action. Vengeance features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaugh...

  • Criminal

    Will Trent - 6

    Karin Slaughter’s new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man’s deepest secrets. Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investiga...



  • Busted

    Will Trent - 6.5

    From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem. This electrifying eBook novella featuring Will Trent is a prequel to Slaughter’s upcoming novel, Unseen. Detective Will Trent is standing in a Georgia co...

  • Unseen

    Will Trent - 7

    Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring detective Will Trent are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and dee...

  • Snatched

    Will Trent - 5.5

    A gripping, action-packed short story from a master of character, crime, and urgent suspense. Will Trent, a dedicated agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for fifteen years, knows that there's definitely such a thing as a cop's intuitio...

  • Cop Town

    Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic...

  • Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes: A Novella

    Pretty Girls - 0.5

    A beautiful young girl was walking down the street when suddenly... Julia Carroll knows that too many stories start that way. Beautiful, intelligent, a nineteen-year-old college freshman, she should be carefree. But instead she is frightened. Bec...

  • Pretty Girls

    Pretty Girls - 1

    Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy w...

  • Cold, Cold Heart

    First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes revenge. In this sensational short story from the bestselling author of The Kept Woman and Pretty Girls, fifty-two-year-old Pam has done her utmost as a loyal wife to her now ex-husband John....

  • The Kept Woman

    Will Trent - 8

    Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist ...

  • Last Breath: A Novella

    Charlie Quinn - 0.5

    Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn's childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home -- and after that shocking night, Charlie...

  • The Good Daughter

    Charlie Quinn - 1

    The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author -- a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind… ...



  • Pieces of Her

    Andrea Oliver - 1

    The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter -- a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she’s written before. ...

  • Cleaning the Gold

    Will Trent - 8.5

    Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mis...

  • Short Story

    It was a scam, but then the scam had gone horribly wrong… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Karin Slaughter and Michael Koryta -- along with their popular series characters Jeffrey Tolliver and Joe Pri...

  • The Last Widow

    Will Trent - 9

    Investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must stop a mysterious group of domestic terrorists planning to unleash a deadly epidemic in this electrifying and all too plausible thriller. On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission...

  • The Silent Wife

    Will Trent - 10

    Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will Trent to the state penitentiary, and to a prisoner who says he ...

  • False Witness

    He saw what you did. He knows who you are… From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller. AN ORDINARY LIFE… Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a n...

  • Like A Charm

  • Girl, Forgotten

    Andrea Oliver - 2

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshal Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father’s past. A small town hides a big secret… W...

  • After That Night

    Will Trent - 11

    WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! Will Trent and Sara Linton are back! This is the 11th electrifying thriller featuring GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton from New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter. After that nigh...

  • This Is Why We Lied

    WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!“Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill.” — ParadeThe next thrilling suspense featuring Will Tren...



  • This Is Why We Lied

    “Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill.”  --  ParadeThe next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaugh...

Award-Winning Books by Karin Slaughter

A Faint Cold Fear
2003 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karin Slaughter has published 40 books.

The next book by Karin Slaughter, This Is Why We Lied, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Karin Slaughter, Blindsighted, was published in September 2001.

Yes. Karin Slaughter has 5 series.
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