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Gillian Flynn says, Karin Slaughter is simply one of the best thriller writers working today.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 survivorsincluding a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Lintonare held hostage. In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment into more bloodlettingwith her ex-husband on the threshold of deathSara must search for answers and an escape in the memories of a time at the start of their relationship when another brutal, shocking crime shattered their small-town world. Because the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey ... with a vengeance.
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Karin Slaughter is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 35 million copies sold across the globe, her 21 novels include the Grant County and Will Trent books, as well as the Edgar-nominated COP TOWN and the instant NYT bestselling stand-alone 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, she lives in Atlanta. Her stand-alone novel PIECES OF HER is in development with Netflix, starring Toni Collette, and the Grant County and Will Trent series are in development for television. www.karinslaughter.com Facebook www.facebook.com/AuthorKarinSlaughter/Instagram www.instagram.com/karinslaughterauthor/Twitter @SlaughterKarin
