The Silent Wife

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Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed storytellers. She grew up in a small south Georgia town and has been writing since she was a child. 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, and PIECES OF HER. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project–a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, Karin Slaughter lives in Atlanta. Her standalone novel PIECES OF HER is in development at Netflix and will star Toni Collette.

‘Simply one of the best thriller writers working today’ Gillian Flynn

‘Crime fiction at its finest’ Michael Connelly

‘Fiction doesn’t get any better than this’ Jeffrey Deaver

‘A writer of extraordinary talents’ Kathy Reichs

‘Karin Slaughter has – by far – the best name of all of us mystery novelists’ James Patterson

‘A masterful storyteller who doesn’t mind treading down the darker paths of crime writing’ Good Reading

‘In a class of her own’ West Australian