One of her favorite books–ever– is Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. Some of her favorite non-crime fiction authors include Flannery O’Connor, John Steinbeck and Stephen King. She doesn’t read crime fiction when she’s writing, though, choosing to focus on other genres instead. Karin Slaughter confesses that she’s an avid fan of crime fiction and reads several books every week.
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In fact, one of her popular series of books, known as the Grant County Series, is set in a fictional Georgia town much like the one in which Slaughter grew up. She sets most of her books in the South, apparently adhering to the old saw that writers should ‘write what they know’. Slaughter is still a Southern girl: she lives in Atlanta and says that stereotypes about the South make her ‘absolutely furious’. The experience sparked an interest in how communities respond to crime. Slaughter says that her carefree childhood was interrupted by the changes brought about by the fear that spread through her community. She grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, during a time when Atlanta, located just up the road from Jonesboro, was reeling from a string of child murders.
She was also influenced by the gruesome events occurring in the world around her.
She was expelled from her Christian primary school for tearing a Bible apart, for instance and one of her first boyfriends was an undertaker-in-training. Slaughter was different in other obvious ways, too. Karin Slaughter didn’t mind being different, though even as a child, she was too busy reading to care what other people thought. This interest set her apart from most of the other little girls in her small hometown of Jonesboro, Georgia, where her father ran a local car dealership.
Her last name really is Slaughter, and even as a small child, she was fascinated by the macabre.
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