The Good Daughter: Book vs. Series

The 2026 series The Good Daughter adapts Karin Slaughter's book, with Slaughter writing and Steph Green directing. Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play sisters whose lives are unsettled by another act of violence.

ComingOn Peacock November 12, 2026
The bookThe Good Daughter
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About the book and the TV show
Book
The Good Daughter cover
Author
Karin Slaughter
Year
2017
Pages
528Buy book
Audiobook length
17 hr 52 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Kathleen Early

Charlotte Quinn has become a lawyer in the town where a violent attack devastated her family and separated her from her sister Samantha. Twenty-eight years after that attack, she witnesses a new act of violence that draws her into another contested case. Working through what happened forces the sisters to revisit memories and secrets they have kept apart.

TV show
The Good Daughter poster
Creator
Karin Slaughter
Writer
Karin Slaughter
Year
2026
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Network
Peacock
Cast
Rose Byrne, Meghann Fahy, Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele
Genre
crime, drama
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Charlotte Quinn becomes a witness to a violent attack in the Georgia town where she works as a lawyer. The case draws her sister Samantha back into a family still shaped by an assault on their childhood home twenty years earlier. Working through the new investigation means confronting memories and secrets that neither sister has been able to leave behind.

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