Karin Slaughter is one of the world's most popular storytellers. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels, with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is a #1 Netflix series. The Will Trent show is on ABC/Disney+. Slaughter wrote the limited series adaptation of The Good Daughter for TV.

Karin Slaughter is also 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.