The Grant County series is set in the fictional town of Heartsdale, Georgia, and features three main characters: Sara Linton, the town’s paediatrician and part-time coroner; her ex-husband, Jeffrey Tolliver, who is chief of police; and detective Lena Adams. The books are narrated from the perspectives of three main characters.

Grant County is Karin Slaughter’s debut series and the books develop her trademark style of propulsive suspense, violent action, and well-drawn characters.

Sara Linton later appears in Karin’s Will Trent series as a main character, and Jeffrey Tolliver is featured in Short Story from The MatchUp Collection, which Slaughter co-wrote with Michael Koryta.

Although the books can be read independently, we strongly recommend reading them in order to fully follow the lives of the protagonists and the plot development throughout the series.