Karin Slaughter Books in Order

Karin Slaughter is an American crime thriller author best known for the Will Trent series, featuring a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent pursuing Atlanta’s vicious criminals. She has published more than 25 novels since 2001, with over 40 million copies sold across 120 countries, and has won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Edgar Award for Best Short Story.

Her two main series, Grant County and Will Trent, share characters and overlap from book 3 of Will Trent onward, making reading order more relevant than usual for Slaughter’s work. She has also launched newer series including the Charlie Quinn / Good Daughter duology, the Andrea Oliver series, and the North Falls thrillers.

This page lists all Karin Slaughter books in order, including the Grant County, Will Trent, Charlie Quinn, Andrea Oliver, and North Falls series, standalone novels, short stories, and novellas.

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Grant County Series (Books in Order)

The Grant County series follows Sara Linton, a pediatrician and part-time coroner in the small fictional Georgia town of Heartsdale, working with her ex-husband Jeffrey Tolliver, chief of police, and detective Lena Adams. The series, the precursor to the Will Trent series, deals with violent crime in a small Southern community.

Reading Order

1. Blindsighted, 2001
2. Kisscut, 2002
3. A Faint Cold Fear, 2003
4. Indelible, 2004
5. Faithless,  2005
6. Beyond Reach, 2007 (also titled Skin Privilege)
7. Undone, 2009 (also titled Genesis)

Will Trent Series (Books in Order)

The Will Trent series follows GBI special agent Will Trent and his partner Faith Mitchell as they investigate serious crimes across Georgia, primarily in Atlanta. Will grew up in the Atlanta foster care system, and the weight of that past is carried into his work. He is one of the more distinctive protagonists in American crime fiction, highly observant, quietly driven, and dealing with severe dyslexia. From book 3 (Undone/Genesis) onward, Grant County’s Sara Linton joins the series as a main character, which is when the two series fully merge.

Reading notes: Cleaning the Gold (book 8.5) is a short story co-authored with Lee Child, in which Will Trent and Jack Reacher meet.

Reading Order

1. Triptych, 2006
2. Fractured, 2008
3. Undone, 2009
4. Broken, 2010
5. Fallen, 2011
6. Snatched, 2012
7. Criminal, 2012
8. Busted, 2013
9. Unseen, 2013
10. The Kept Woman, 2016
11. Cleaning the Gold, 2019
12. The Last Widow, 2019
13. The Silent Wife, 2020
14. After That Night, 2023
15. This is Why We Lied, 2024

Charlie Quinn Series (Books in Order)

The Charlie Quinn series follows defense attorney Charlie Quinn working in small-town Georgia who takes cases for people who have nobody else to help them. The series begins with the novella Last Breath, which covers the violent event from Charlie’s childhood that shaped her life, then moves into The Good Daughter, set 28 years later.

Reading Order

1. Last Breath, 2017
2. The Good Daughter, 2017

Andrea Oliver Series (Books in Order)

The Andrea Oliver series follows newly appointed US Marshal Andrea Oliver, whose works cold cases and unresolved crimes. Andrea first appears as a child in Pieces of Her, which follows her mother Laura, and in Girl, Forgotten she becomes the main character.

Reading Order

1. Pieces of Her, 2018
2. Girl, Forgotten, 2022

North Falls Series (Books in Order)

The North Falls series follows Officer Emmy Clifton and her sister Jude Archer, an ex-federal agent, who uncover deep buried and dark secrets in the seemingly peaceful small fictional rural Georgia community of North Falls while investigating crimes in the area.

Reading Order

• We Are All Guilty Here, 2025
• The Secrets We Hide, 2026

Standalone Novels

• Cop Town, 2014
• Pretty Girls, 2015
• False Witness, 2021

Short Stories and Novellas

• Martin Misunderstood, 2008
• The Unremarkable Heart, 2011
• The Blessing of Brokenness, 2012
• Cold, Cold Heart, 2016
• Go Deep, 2015
• Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes, 2015 (novella prequel to Pretty Girls)
• Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line, 2015

Short Story Anthologies

• Tart Noir, 2002
• Like A Charm, 2004
• The Penguin Book of Crime Stories, 2007 (edited by Peter Robinson)
• First Thrills, 2010 (edited by Lee Child)
• First Thrills: Volume 3, 2011 (edited by Lee Child)
• Suspense Magazine August 2012, 2012
• Vengeance, 2012 (edited by Lee Child)
• The Mystery Box, 2013 (edited by Brad Meltzer)
• Three Twisted Stories, 2015
• MatchUp, 2017 (edited by Lee Child)

Karin Slaughter Biography

Karin Slaughter is an American crime thriller author whose work includes the Grant County, Will Trent, and North Falls series. She has published more than 25 novels since her debut in 2001, with over 40 million copies sold in 120 countries.
Official website: karinslaughter.com

Born on January 6, 1971, in Covington, Georgia, Karin Slaughter grew up in Lake Spivey and attended Morrow High School in Ellenwood. She studied literature at Georgia State University before leaving to work in the sign industry, where she started her own sign business before turning to writing full time. She has said the years of failed early manuscripts were where she learned the craft.

Her debut novel, Blindsighted, published in 2001, introduced Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver in the Grant County series and made her famous right away, earning a CWA Dagger nomination for Best Thriller Debut. She launched the Will Trent series in 2006 with Triptych, set in Atlanta, and merged the two series in Undone, published in 2009. Later standalone work, Pretty Girls, Cop Town, and Pieces of Her, made her popular beyond her series fans. She has since launched the Charlie Quinn, Andrea Oliver, and North Falls series.

Multiple adaptations are in production or on air: the Will Trent series has aired on ABC since 2023, and Pieces of Her debuted at #1 on Netflix in 2022. Slaughter is the founder of Save the Libraries, a nonprofit that has contributed over $300,000 to the DeKalb County Public Library in Atlanta. She lives in Georgia.

Karin Slaughter Book Adaptations

• Pieces of Her – adapted into the Netflix original series Pieces of Her (2022)
• Will Trent series – adapted into the ABC television series Will Trent (2023–present)
• The Good Daughter – in production as a limited series for Peacock

Karin Slaughter Awards and Honors

Major Awards and Honors

• Blindsighted – CWA Dagger nomination, Best Thriller Debut (2001)
• The Unremarkable Heart – Edgar Award, Best Short Story (2013)
• International Thriller Writers Silver Bullet Award (2011)
• Cop Town – CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2015)
• Pretty Girls – RUSA Adrenaline Award (2016)
• Pieces of Her – International Thriller Writers Award, Best Hardcover Novel (2019)
• We Are All Guilty Here – New York Times #1 Fiction Bestseller (2025)

Awards (Full List)

Nominations and Shortlists

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