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''The author''s trademark of complex plots coupled with character studies makes Pretty Girls another standout.'' -- Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers ''Stunning family.... Certain to be a book of the year.'' -- Lee Child ''Slaughter''s eye for detail and truth is unmatched. . . . I''d follow her anywhere.'' -- Gillian Flynn ''One of the boldest thriller writers working today.'' -- Tess Gerritsen ''Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivaled among thriller writers.'' -- Michael Connelly ''Breathtaking.... Fiction doesn''t get any better than this.'' -- Jeffery Deaver, New York Times -bestselling author of Solitude Creek and The Skin Collector ''Searing, searching, soulful: a major achievement.'' -- Kathy Reichs, #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Speaking in Bones ''A hell-raising thriller...a genuinely exciting narrative driven by strong-willed female characters who can''t wait around until the boys shake the lead out of their shoes.'' -- New York Times Book Review
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. She is the author of more than twenty instant New York Times bestselling novels, including the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and standalone novels The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls. An internationally bestselling author, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is now a #1 Netflix original series, Will Trent is now on ABC and streaming on Hulu, The Good Daughter will soon be a limited series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, and further projects are in development. Karin Slaughter is 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.
Zusammenfassung
Now available in a Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring gorgeous stenciled edges, 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 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 secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and find the astonishing truth where they least expected it.
Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and dark, unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.
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"The author's trademark of complex plots coupled with character studies makes Pretty Girls another standout." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"Stunning family.... Certain to be a book of the year." - Lee Child
"Slaughter's eye for detail and truth is unmatched. . . . I'd follow her anywhere." - Gillian Flynn
"One of the boldest thriller writers working today." - Tess Gerritsen
"Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivaled among thriller writers." - Michael Connelly
"Breathtaking.... Fiction doesn't get any better than this." - Jeffery Deaver, New York Times-bestselling author of Solitude Creek and The Skin Collector
"Searing, searching, soulful: a major achievement." - Kathy Reichs, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Speaking in Bones
"A hell-raising thriller...a genuinely exciting narrative driven by strong-willed female characters who can't wait around until the boys shake the lead out of their shoes." - New York Times Book Review
