Fallen - Karin Slaughter

New York Times and
#1 International Bestselling Author
KARIN
SLAUGHTER
“Karin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America.”
—The Washington Post
A Delacorte Press Hardcover
June 21, 2011 • $26.00 • 978-0-345-52820-9
www.bantambooks.com • www.karinslaughter.com
www.savethelibraries.com
Karin Slaughter is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling
author of eleven thrillers, including Broken, Undone, Fractured, Beyond
Reach, Triptych, and Faithless. She is a native of Georgia.
To help spread the word about the needs for community support for
public libraries, Karin has spearheaded SaveTheLibraries.com, with a
pilot event that benefited the DeKalb County (GA) Public Library system.
This initial event will serve as pilot program to make it repeatable
at other libraries with minimal amount of staff planning time and
administrative investment.
Publicity Contacts:
Cindy Murray, 212/782-8292 or [email protected]
Sonya Safro, 212/782-2533 or [email protected]
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May 2011
Dear Editor/Book Reviewer: Hailed by critics as “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post), #1 internationally bestselling
author Karin Slaughter’s signature trademark is her ability to weave unrelenting suspense and provocative human
drama into unforgettable stories. Her latest novel FALLEN (Delacorte Press Hardcover; on-sale June 21, 2011)
combines these two elements with razor-sharp precision into a tale of a cop willing to go to extreme lengths to save
her family. Off the page, Slaughter is going to extreme lengths of her own to save our libraries. She is passionately
spearheading a multi-faceted fundraising initiative called Save the Libraries (www.SaveTheLibraries.com) to help
raise community awareness and support for the needs of public libraries.
Slaughter has long used her writing as a means of social commentary and to explore crucial issues such as prejudices
against those with disabilities, racial divides, corruption, and failings in our correctional and justice systems. In
FALLEN, these issues are paramount as Will Trent, Sara Linton and Faith Mitchell return and must confront the
“thin blue line” that hides police corruption, bribery, even murder. The personal and the criminal collide, and
conflicted loyalties threaten to destroy reputations and ruin lives as they search for truth in all its complexities.
In an interview, Slaughter can discuss:
• The fiscal crisis the entire American Library system is facing: for nearly 85% of children living in rural areas,
libraries provide their only access to books outside of school. For urban children, libraries are often their
only safe haven to grow and learn. According to the American Library Association, library use increased
23% from 2006-2009, but the 2012 federal budget proposal will cut $20 million from library funding.
• The pilot Save the Libraries event at the Dekalb County Public Library in her home
state of Georgia, which, with fellow bestselling authors and long time library advocates
Kathryn Stockett and Mary Kay Andrews, raised over $50,000 for the 25-branch library.
• How literature can change perception and be used as a tool to shatter stereotypes and foster
change, as seen in her own work through her flawed yet very human and relatable characters.
• Slaughter’s fight for social justice both on the page and in her actions, which lead to her explosive
rallying cry “we should fight for libraries as we do freedom” in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
On her book tour this summer, Slaughter will be visiting public libraries across the country and reminding fans
that she wouldn’t be where she is today if it weren’t for the libraries and librarians, whom Slaughter calls “soldiers
in the battle for our place in the world.” Let’s talk soon about review or feature coverage this June for Karin
Slaughter’s FALLEN and I hope you’ll join us in spreading the word about the needs for community support for
public libraries and Save the Libraries.
Sincerely,
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Fallen
A Novel
KARIN SLAUGHTER
“You know what we’re here for. Hand it over, and we’ll let her go.”
From New York Times and #1 international bestseller Karin Slaughter
comes an electrifying new thriller about how far a woman, a cop, a daughter
will go when her police work turns personal.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation teaches its agents to be calm in the face of danger, to always keep a level
head, to never take a case personally. For Special Agent Faith Mitchell, all of those rules are shattered the instant
she finds a bloody handprint on the door of her childhood home. Personal and professional collide in a terrifying
instant when she goes to pick her four-month-old daughter up from her mother’s, and finds the child left alone
in a toolshed, a gangland hostage situation in her mother’s bedroom, and her mother vanished into thin air.
When the hostage situation turns deadly, Faith is left with too many questions and not enough answers.
To find her mother, she’ll need the help of her partner, Will Trent, and they’ll both need the help
of trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isn’t just a cop anymore—she’s a witness. And a suspect.
Now Faith will have to go up against the thin blue line: confronting police corruption, bribery, murder, and
the people she respects the most in order to find her mother and bring the truth to light—or bury it forever.
The Chicago Sun-Times has called Slaughter’s work “powerful and complex” and FALLEN is the work of a
master of the thriller at the top of her game.
FALLEN
By Karin Slaughter
A Delacorte Press Hardcover ■ On Sale June 21, 2011 ■ Price: $26.00 ■ ISBN: 978-0-345-52820-9
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On Tour with Karin Slaughter 2011
Baltimore, MD
Tuesday, June 21
6:30 PM
Talk & Signing
Herring Run Branch Library
3801 Erdman Ave.
Baltimore MD 21213
Phone: 410/396-0996
Cleveland, OH
Wednesday, June 22
7:00 PM
Talk & Signing
Cuyahoga County Public Library
North Olmsted Branch
27403 Lorain Rd.
North Olmsted, OH 44070
Phone: 440/777-6211
Chicago, IL
Thursday, June 23
7:00 PM
Talk & Signing
Evergreen Park Public Library
9400 S. Troy Avenue
Evergreen Park, IL 60805
Phone: 708/422-8522
Carmel, IN
Friday, June 24
7:00 PM
Talk & Signing
Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation
55 4th Avenue SE
Carmel, IN 46032
Phone: 317/814-3905
New Orleans, LA
June 25-27
American Library Association Conference
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
New Orleans, LA
Las Vegas, NV
Tuesday, June 28
7:00 PM
Talk & Signing
Clark County Library
1401 E. Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Phone: 702/507-3459
Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, June 29
7:00 PM
Talk & Signing
Poisoned Pen
4014 N. Goldwater, Suite 101
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Phone: 480/947-2974
Atlanta, GA
Friday, July 1
7:00 PM
Talk & Signing
Barnes & Noble with Gwinnett County
Public Library System
5141 Peachtree Parkway
Norcross, GA 30092
Phone: 770/209-4244
Thrillerfest
Grand Hyatt New York
109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central Terminal
New York, NY
*Karin Slaughter will receive The Silver Bullet Award, an award created by the International Thriller
Writers in conjunction with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) to recognize outstanding and meritorious
achievement in the pursuit of literacy and the love of reading.
New York, NY
July 6 — July 8