Pretty Girls

Zusatztext "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." Informationen zum Autor 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, with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is a #1 Netflix series. The Will Trent show is on ABC. Slaughter wrote the limited series adaptation of The Good Daughter for Peacock. Karin Slaughter is also the founder of the Save the Libraries projecta nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta. Klappentext Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. It's been more than twenty years since Claire and Lydia last spoke. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire; Lydia, a single mother dating an ex-con, struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the disappearance of their sister Julia two decades earlierand the shocking murder of Claire's husband brings the horror and heartbreak of the past roaring back into their lives. The vanishing of a teenage girl and the killing of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? As they form a wary truce, the surviving sisters unearth the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . .and find the astonishing truth where they least expected it. Zusammenfassung #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? ...

A hell-raising thrillera genuinely exciting narrative driven by strong-willed female characters who can't wait around until the boys shake the lead out of their shoes.

Autorentext

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, with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her is a #1 Netflix series. The Will Trent show is on ABC. Slaughter wrote the limited series adaptation of The Good Daughter for Peacock.

Karin Slaughter is also the founder of the Save the Libraries projecta nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

Klappentext

Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

It’s been more than twenty years since Claire and Lydia last spoke. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire; Lydia, a single mother dating an ex-con, struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the disappearance of their sister Julia two decades earlier—and the shocking murder of Claire’s husband brings the horror and heartbreak of the past roaring back into their lives.

The vanishing of a teenage girl and the killing of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? As they form a wary truce, the surviving sisters unearth the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . .and find the astonishing truth where they least expected it.

Zusammenfassung

#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?