Pretty Girls: A Novel

Lee Child says it's "stunning... certain to be a book of the year."

Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary... a major achievement."

Jeffery Deaver says that "fiction doesn't get any better than this."

Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: "I'd follow her anywhere."

See for yourself what these #1 New York Times-bestselling authors are talking about.


Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's 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.

--Tess Gerritsen

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432 pages

Average rating: 7.79

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Anonymous
Aug 30, 2023
8/10 stars
Pretty Girls was a thrill from the start! So many ups, downs, and dramatic turns. It definitely deals with some morbid topics, so beware, but totally worth the read!
SCH2012
Aug 18, 2023
10/10 stars
Literally went in a completely different direction than I anticipated and I LOVED IT!
AlexGJ
Aug 16, 2023
4/10 stars
Probably my last Karin Slaughter book - just too much graphic gratuitous violence against women for me to handle.
Kalkaskamz
Jul 17, 2023
Absolutely loved this book! Full of twists and turns I never saw coming. Trigger warning: very dark
eadietzesq
Jun 27, 2023
10/10 stars
This was recommended to me by one of my best friends when I asked for book recs for 2023. This one did not disappoint. It was a quick and fun thriller that definitely had some twists that I did not see coming!

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