Thriller author Karin Slaughter was not an easy teenager: “One day I stood in front of a class and tore the Bible to pieces”

The autumn leaves are falling and Halloween beckons. The ideal time to curl up with an exciting book. From Karin Slaughter (51) for example. The American author has published 22 crime novels and a handful of short stories, of which more than 40 million have been sold. It makes her one of the best-selling authors in the world. Yet she tries not to let success go to her head. Slaughter has already been through a lot. She was terrorized by a stalker, never really got to know her birth mother, and discovered that her grandfather was a tyrant. “He beat my grandmother rotten almost every day.”

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