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Karin Slaughter

Author of Blindsighted

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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, and Pieces of Her. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Blindsighted… (more)

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Works by Karin Slaughter

Blindsighted 3,218 copies, 112 reviews

Triptych 2,796 copies, 90 reviews

Pretty Girls 2,538 copies, 170 reviews

Fractured 2,363 copies, 74 reviews

Kisscut 2,356 copies, 52 reviews

A Faint Cold Fear 2,348 copies, 46 reviews

Faithless 2,325 copies, 58 reviews

Indelible 2,208 copies, 47 reviews

The Good Daughter 2,003 copies, 99 reviews

Beyond Reach 1,988 copies, 56 reviews

Undone 1,980 copies, 92 reviews

Broken 1,891 copies, 104 reviews

Pieces of Her 1,680 copies, 75 reviews

Fallen 1,540 copies, 93 reviews

The Kept Woman 1,199 copies, 48 reviews

Criminal 1,022 copies, 52 reviews

Cop Town 991 copies, 93 reviews

The Last Widow 960 copies, 36 reviews

Unseen 877 copies, 42 reviews

The Silent Wife 872 copies, 36 reviews

False Witness 755 copies, 26 reviews

Girl, Forgotten 648 copies, 22 reviews

Martin Misunderstood 456 copies, 29 reviews

Criminal [with bonus novella: Snatched] 423 copies, 15 reviews

Snatched 329 copies, 13 reviews

Cleaning the Gold 310 copies, 16 reviews

Like a Charm: A Novel in Voices (Editor; Contributor) 308 copies, 8 reviews

Unseen [with bonus novella 'Busted'] 280 copies, 5 reviews

Last Breath 266 copies, 14 reviews

Busted - short story 211 copies, 11 reviews

After That Night 154 copies, 11 reviews

Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes 151 copies, 17 reviews

Thorn in My Side [short story] 105 copies, 6 reviews

The Unremarkable Heart 86 copies, 7 reviews

Triptych / Faithless 78 copies, 2 reviews

Cop Town [includes short story "Diep"] 55 copies, 2 reviews

Cold, Cold Heart [short story] 54 copies, 7 reviews

Meta-Science: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy… 52 copies, 1 review

The Unremarkable Heart and Other Stories 43 copies, 3 reviews

Blindsighted / Kisscut 32 copies, 1 review

Three Twisted Stories 29 copies, 2 reviews

Blindsighted [Abridged] 25 copies, 2 reviews

The Blessing of Brokenness 18 copies

The Will Trent Series 7-Book Bundle 15 copies

The Truth About Pretty Girls 12 copies

Meet the Queen of Suspense, Karin Slaughter [promotional booklet with… 11 copies, 2 reviews

Go Deep 9 copies

Short Story 9 copies

Karin Slaughter Collection 6 Books Set Pack (Blindsighted / Indelible / A… 8 copies

A Grant County Collection: Indelible / Faithless / Skin Privilege 7 copies

Indelible / Faithless 7 copies

Kisscut [Abridged] 6 copies, 1 review

Necessary Women 6 copies, 1 review

Necessary Women [and] The Mean Time (short stories) 5 copies

Beyond Reach / Faithless / Undone / Fractured 5 copies

SOS Title Unknown 3 copies

Karin Slaughter Will Trent and Grant County Series 12 Books Collection Set… 2 copies

Puntgaaf korte verhalen 2 copies

After That Night Intl: A Novel 2 copies, 1 review

For the love of Elena 2 copies

The Surgeon | The Sinner | Body Double | Fractured 2 copies

The Will Trent Series 5-Book Bundle 2 copies

Pretty Girls [includes short story "Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes"] 2 copies

The Mean Time [novella] 2 copies

Fractured [Braille]: Grade 2 2 copies

Karin Slaughter CD Collection: Beyond Reach / Fractured / Undone 2 copies

Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line: A Short Story 1 copy

SOS Title Unknown 1 copy

Fractured / Undone / Broken 1 copy

Triptch 1 copy

The Recidivists 1 copy

Die letzte Nacht (ungekürzt): Thriller (Georgia-Serie) 1 copy

Fallen / Thorn in My Side 1 copy

Die letzte Nacht: Thriller | Der neue Thriller der… 1 copy

Girl, Forgotton 1 copy

Soğuk Korku (Grant County, #3) 1 copy

Flores cortadas (Suspense / Thriller) 1 copy

Criminal (Criminal (roca)) 1 copy

Will Trent Series, 8-Book Set 1 copy

The Will Trent Series 5-Book Bundle: Triptych / Fractured / Undone /… 1 copy

Zběsilost 1 copy

Okänt hot 1 copy

Grant County Series 5 Books Collection Set By Karin Slaughter (Faint Cold… 1 copy

The Good Daughter - Signed / Autographed Copy 1 copy

The Last Widow / Cleaning the Gold 1 copy

Faithless / Skin Privilege / Genesis / Triptych / Fractured 1 copy

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Also by Karin Slaughter

The Library Book (Contributor) 378 copies, 15 reviews

MatchUp (Contributor) 299 copies, 22 reviews

First Thrills (Contributor) 246 copies, 9 reviews

Vengeance (Contributor) 156 copies, 16 reviews

Tart Noir (Contributor) 108 copies, 3 reviews

The Mystery Box (Contributor) 90 copies, 4 reviews

The Penguin Book of Crime Stories (Contributor) 16 copies, 1 review

First Thrills: Volume 3 (Contributor) 9 copies

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Date of birth

1971-01-06

Date of death

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Gender

female

Nationality

USA

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Georgia, USA

Place of death

Cause of death

Places of residence

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Education

Occupations

crime novelist

Relationships

Agents

Victoria Sanders (Victoria Sanders and Associates)

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Awards and honors

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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