Pretty Girls: A Novel

Name: Pretty Girls: A Novel
Rating: 4.454545497894287 (583 reviews)

Karin Slaughter

Sep 2015 · Sold by HarperCollins

4.5

583 reviews

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#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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4.5

583 reviews

Mackenzie Moore

March 9, 2020

I had high hopes for this one, but it simply falls flat. I was so disappointed by the last half that I just stopped reading. It seems like the author was trying so hard to 'wow' her audience that she comes up with scenarios that are simply ridiculous. She aimed to disturb the audience but overdoes it to where you don't even keep interest. The golden rule in horror books is to be disturbing to the point of intrigue, and this just went over the top in the worst way.

leanne clay

August 7, 2023

Dragged on and on with this far-fetched story. It started out well, and I kept hoping the storytelling would get back to that, but, no. I felt like the author was making it up as she went, trying to keep the reader engaged by putting in salacious, graphic, gory details of the works of the psychotic serial killer. I often rolled my eyes, even laughed at this story, but not in a good way. One of the worst books I ever read. Won't be reading this author again.

oak tree

March 22, 2019

The book revels in extremely graphic depictions of very young women being sexually tortured, mutilated and murdered. The villain is a ridiculous caricature of a "brilliant" serial killer, and the whole book eventually seems more like a pretext for wallowing in pain and gore than it does a coherent story. The two lead characters, sisters drawn into the murders, are interesting, believable, and very well-drawn. They deserve a better book.

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, including the Edgar nominated Cop Town and standalone novels Pretty Girls and False Witness. An international bestseller, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her, based on her novel, debuted at #1 worldwide on Netflix as an original series in 2022. Her bestselling thriller series, Will Trent, is now a television and streaming sensation in its 4th season. The Good Daughter has been adapted into a limited series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, and further projects are currently in development for film/TV. 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.

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