The Secrets We Hide
The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Daughter and the Will Trent Series.
Welcome to North Falls. A small town with big secrets…
1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors.
When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead.
Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town.
And it’s up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth…
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Karin Slaughter
Crime is never black and white in Karin Slaughter’s world—it’s raw, relentless, and deeply personal. With a scalpel-sharp precision that has become her signature, Slaughter dissects the darkest corners of human nature, crafting thrillers that are as psychologically rich as they are unflinchingly brutal. Her stories don’t just unfold; they unravel, layer by layer, exposing the complexity of justice, trauma, and survival.
Born in Georgia, Slaughter grew up surrounded by Southern storytelling, a tradition that infused her work with a deep sense of place and history. She credits her early fascination with crime to a childhood spent in the shadow of real-life violence. The South, with its haunting past and tangled moral codes, became the perfect backdrop for her novels—where the sins of the past bleed into the present and justice is rarely simple.
North Falls Thriller
It begins in the kind of town where everyone knows your name—and some know far too much. North Falls, nestled deep in rural America, hums with the illusion of peace. But beneath its manicured lawns and quiet streets lies something far more sinister. In this taut, emotionally complex thriller series, the facade of normalcy is shattered when two girls vanish without a trace, pulling Deputy Emmy Lou Clifton into a chilling investigation that forces her to question not only the people around her, but the life she thought she understood.
North Falls Thriller consists of two books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
