Pretty Girls: A Novel

ISBN: 0062499556

Author: Slaughter, Karin

Condition: New

Lee Child says its stunning certain to be a book of the year.Kathy Reichs calls it extraordinary a major achievement.Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: Id follow her anywhere.Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydias 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.