Pretty Girls
A Novel
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
Publisher Description
#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?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Karin Slaughter kept us on our toes with this chilling novel about two women pulled apart—and brought back together—by horrific crimes committed two decades apart. We were repeatedly stunned by unexpected twists and awed by the bestselling American author’s crafty storytelling. Pretty Girls features compelling female heroines who overcome staggering obstacles and press on to find some closure. Slaughter intersperses the suspenseful narrative with a grieving father’s first-person revelations, boosting the story’s emotional wallop.
