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Pretty Girls

by Karin Slaughter

Estranged sisters and two linked tragedies

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Estranged sisters and two linked tragedies

A husband’s murder draws Claire back into the unresolved disappearance of Julia, whose loss divided the family more than two decades earlier. To investigate what connects the crimes, Claire must work with Lydia, the sister she has long been estranged from. The mystery is built around that uneasy reunion and the sisters’ effort to uncover family secrets that may explain both tragedies. Karin Slaughter’s novel combines a family mystery with a crime investigation, placing the relationship between the surviving sisters alongside the search for answers.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in crime mysteries centered on family relationships.
  • For readers who enjoy stories involving cold cases, disappearances, and secrets from the past.
  • For readers seeking an adult psychological thriller featuring women at the center of the investigation.

Themes

Sisterhood and estrangementFamily secretsCold cases and disappearanceMurder investigation

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Book overview

#1 New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls is a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives.

 

Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

 

CLAIRE: A glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire.LYDIA: A single mother dating an ex-con, who struggles to make ends meet.JULIA: The sister whose devastating disappearance more than two decades earlier shattered their family. When the shocking murder of Claire's husband brings the horror and heartbreak of the cold case of her sister's disappearance roaring back, she is forced to form a wary truce with Lydia, whom she has not spoken to in decades. Two crimes, nearly a quarter century apart: What could connect them? Haunted, the surviving sisters begin to unearth the dark family secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago ... and find the astonishing truth where they least expected it. Powerful, poignant, and an utterly gripping crime thriller, packed with indelible characters and dark, unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.

The secrets connecting a brutal murder to a decades-old disappearance are about to be unearthed. But will the truth save them, or bury them forever?

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