The Secrets We Hide

The gripping new crime thriller from Karin Slaughter – the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of We Are All Guilty Here. 'Her books grip you from the first page and refuse to let go' Freida McFadden

*** Welcome to North Falls—a small town with big secrets. The house at 1601 Iris Drive looks like any other in the quiet, residential street. But rumours are rife about the Vickery family – a couple in the midst of a volatile separation and a daughter with secrets of her own.

Then one afternoon gunshots ring out. Allison Vickery is found murdered in her own kitchen, her teenage daughter bleeding and left for dead. Her husband suspiciously absent.

Everyone in North Falls thinks they know what happened. Gossip and rumours spread like wildfire. But the truth is far more shocking than anyone could ever have imagined.

Secrets are everywhere in this small town. Everyone is hiding something. It's up to Detective Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth, but the deeper she looks the darker it gets…

A gripping and twisty thriller, perfect or fans of Lisa Jewell, Andrea Mara and Shari Lapena

*** Readers are obsessed with The Secrets We Hide ‘Karin Slaughter is so good at writing small town life in all its darkness … gossip, loyalties and old resentments shaping every interaction’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘With themes of coercive control, abuse, corruption, motherhood, and devastating family secrets, this novel becomes far more than a conventional crime thriller’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A story of family, mothers and daughters, and the lengths that mothers will go to, to protect and forgive their children’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Praise for We Are All Guilty Here, the first novel in the North Falls series:

'A powerful and gripping read' Shari Lapena

'Karin absolutely nails small town America with complex family lives filled with secrets and paranoia' 5 star reader review

'An astonishing novel' Andrea Mara

'Brilliant, heart-breaking, tense, disturbing and another impossible to put down' 5 star reader review

'Karin Slaughter is always a must read' Harlan Coben

'A compelling and intricately woven thriller that will keep readers hooked from start to finish' 5 star reader review

Karin Slaughter's book We Are All Guilty Here was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-06-23.

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Audioraamat: 18. juuni 2026