I KILL MEN TOO. I NEVER GET CREDIT FOR IT!

Renowned for her gripping crime novels, Karin Slaughter is one of the world's foremost writers about misogyny and violence against women and her new book is a gripping family saga, think Barbara Taylor Bradford... with murders!

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and Emmy in the future. While her work inevitably revolves around violence towards women, Karin insists she is an equal opportunities writer: "I kill men in my books, I never get credit for that."

friends with kids and I just steal from them,” she smiles. “But I also remember what it was like. It was hard when I was a teenager but now...how do they do it? How do they survive? And how do they navigate into adulthood, particularly when we have a society that rewards selfish behaviour?”

This is reflected in We Are All Guilty Here in attitudes towards Madison and Cheyenne that we might call victim blaming.

After jailing the man they believe to be the killer, a local bad seed known as “the Perv”, the action leaps forward 12 years.

Despite failing health, Gerald remains sheriff while Emmy continues to deal with the fall-out from the murders and the guilt that dogs her every step.

“The book deals a lot with memory, which is just where I am in my life, where you're looking back. You see fewer years ahead than behind,” Slaughter says.