FALSE WITNESS by Karin Slaughter - Garden & Gun 'My Town: Karin Slaughter’s Blue Ridge, Georgia'

Garden & Gun | July 1, 2021

When the best-selling crime novelist Karin Slaughter needs to bounce out of Atlanta to find the time and mental space to write, she beelines for the hills and her writing cabin in the North Georgia mountain town of Blue Ridge. “You can’t look out from a cabin, see trees, and not be relaxed,” she says. We chatted with the author, whose next novel (she has published nearly two dozen), False Witness, comes out later this month, about her latest projects, the pit stops she makes on the way out of town, and her favorite spots once she reaches cooler mountain air.

You’ve got False Witness coming out in July, and then Netflix is working on a series of yours right now as well, about Pieces of Her?

They filmed the bulk of it in Australia, but there will still be some filming coming up in Atlanta and Savannah—it’s set in South Georgia, and you just can’t transport bougainvillea and the real look of guys walking around in Bass shoes and shorts with a crease.

Where do you stop on the way out of town from Atlanta?

There’s both a QuikTrip and a RaceTrac on the way to and fro, each on opposite sides of the road, so I generally try to make a pit stop and get a Coke Icee, which is one of the treats I used to get when I was a kid. I don’t drink sodas, so it’s an extra punch of sugar when I need it most.

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