Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss-a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago … and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.
Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.
Pretty Girls is not an easy read because of the … Karin Slaughter takes another break from Grant County in her new standalone thriller “Pretty Girls.” The initial chapters alternate between a father’s writings to his daughter who went missing as a teenager, and third person narratives focusing on a wealthy house wife who is on parole after an incident at her tennis club, and a former junkie who is struggling as a single mother. Eventually the connections between the characters are revealed, and justice is sought for the missing…
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“I can’t walk away from this.” Karin Slaughter’s standalone, “Pretty Girls,” is a disturbing thriller about the lengths to which psychopaths will go to satisfy their twisted predilections. Claire and her husband Paul Scott, a successful architect, live the good life in a suburb of Atlanta. They wear designer clothes, reside in a custom-built home, and drive expensive cars. When a tragic event shatters Claire’s hitherto comfortable existence, she is overwhelmed, panic-stricken, and in desperate need of advice and…