‘The Good Daughter’ Author Is “Thinking About” Short Story Sequel

After adapting her 2017 novel The Good Daughter into a Peacock series, author Karin Slaughter wants to revisit Charlie and Sam.

The writer, who also penned the streaming series and served as showrunner, revealed that she’s “actually been thinking about” following up the source novel with a short story about the sisters, who are portrayed onscreen by Meghann Fahy and Rose Byrne.

“Honestly, if they’re gonna be in a new story by Karen Slaughter, it’s never gonna be for a good thing,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “Don’t think they would be really happy in the beginning. Then, bad stuff would happen, and then they would get through it and be happy again.”

Slaughter noted that she’s already thought about where the characters are in the sequel. “Charlie [played by Fahy] and Ben [Michael Dorman] moved to Atlanta, and start jobs there and start over. I have given a lot of thought to [what’s next],” she said.

In The Good Daughter, sisters Charlotte (Fahy) and Samantha (Byrne) reunite 20 years after they survive a violent home invasion. When Charlotte witnesses a violent attack in their Georgia hometown, Samantha returns home to help her sister and their father Rusty (Brendan Gleeson) investigate the crime, both having followed him into a career of law.

Based on her own novel, Slaughter wrote all six episodes of the crime thriller, which are directed by Steph Green, now available to stream on Peacock.