Pretty Girls: A Psychological Thriller Novel Exploring Secrets and Lies Among Sisters - Softcover

Slaughter, Karin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062499556 ISBN 13: 9780062499554

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017

Synopsis

#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?

About this title

About the Author

Karin Slaughter is one of the world's most popular storytellers. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels, with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is now a #1 Netflix series. The Will Trent show is on ABC. The Good Daughter has been adapted into a limited series.

Karin Slaughter is also the founder of the Save the Libraries project―a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

From the Back Cover

Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

It’s been more than twenty years since Claire and Lydia last spoke. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire; Lydia, a single mother dating an ex-con, struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the disappearance of their sister Julia two decades earlier—and the shocking murder of Claire’s husband brings the horror and heartbreak of the past roaring back into their lives.

The vanishing of a teenage girl and the killing of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? As they form a wary truce, the surviving sisters unearth the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . .and find the astonishing truth where they least expected it.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062499556
• ISBN 13: 9780062499554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432