The Secrets We Hide
Girl, Forgotten
The Last Widow
Pieces of Her
What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all . . . ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she’s spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she’s never wanted anything more than to live […]
The Good Daughter
Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind… Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville's notorious defense attorney — […]
The Kept Woman
“Exciting…an intense look at the nature of loss and control, and how love can taint both.” (Publishers Weekly)
Pretty Girls
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015 Claire Scott, the heroine of this gripping standalone from bestseller Slaughter (Cop Town), thought she knew everything about her architect husband, Paul, but her posh Atlanta life is turned upside down when he’s fatally stabbed in an alley and she uncovers a series of nasty videos on his home computer. Paul’s dark […]
Cop Town
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014 Violent crime, police politics, and race relations all figure in this scintillating standalone set in 1970s Atlanta, from bestseller Slaughter (Martin Misunderstood). Maggie Lawson comes from a disjointed, emotionally disconnected family of law enforcement officers, and her time spent as an Atlanta PD cop has hardened her to many of the job’s […]
Unseen : a Novel
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Slaughter’s tense and densely plotted thriller, the fifth to merge her Atlanta-based characters with those in Georgia’s fictional Grant County (after 2012’s Criminal), focuses on stubborn Lena Adams, a Macon police detective and the woman that Dr. Sara Linton—the girlfriend of Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent—blames for her husband Jeffrey’s […]
Criminal
The Washington Post: In addition to being an exhaustive and gimlet-eyed social history of modern Atlanta, especially its flawed criminal justice system and law-enforcement agencies, Criminal is the kind of hold-on-to-your-hat, nail-biting story Slaughter has become world-famous for. It's also the grisliest good-thing-it's-not-true crime novel I've read since Hannibal Lecter bestrode the American publishing landscape. […]