I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

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  The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

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• Karin Slaughter:

  I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. For

• Karin Slaughter:

  I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.