Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter
Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter
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Pretty Girls
A Novel

Author: Karin Slaughter

Narrator: Kathleen Early

Unabridged: 18 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 09/30/2025

Synopsis

#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 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.

About Karin Slaughter

American born author, Karin Slaughter, became an overnight success with her first novel in 2001, Blindsighted. It was an international success, being published in about 30 languages. It made the final cut for the Crime Writer's Association's Dagger Award for best first novel. Slaughter has a total of sixteen novels, and her newest novel, The Kept Woman, was published in 2016.

Slaughter was born in a small southern Georgia town, but now resides in big city Atlanta. She is a participant in the DeKalb County "Save the Libraries" program. All of her novels are currently in development for film and television

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanna on September 24, 2015

In 1991 Julia Carroll disappeared. Her body was never found. In the following years the family coped in very different ways. The mother while forever quietly grieving, moved on and made a new life for herself. The father spent years looking for any clue as to what happened. Sisters Claire and Lydia......more

Goodreads review by Karin on January 31, 2015

Authors are always asked where they get their ideas, and the truth is that most of the time we don't know. An idea is a weird thing--usually, it's like a grain of sand that your brain worries into a pearl. When did the sand start to turn into something shiny and beautiful? No way to know. WIth PRETTY......more

Goodreads review by Emily on July 19, 2023

Unpopular opinion but I didn't like this book. I did listen to it as an audiobook which might not have been the best idea. Karin Slaughter is on my never reading again list. While her books are quite popular, I find them too sexually violent for me. In a gratuitous way. I never thought I'd find books......more

Goodreads review by Kat on May 19, 2020

i love any book that packs a punch, and this one really beats the shit out of me every time......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on December 27, 2016

I just want to start by saying I don't want to list any spoilers here; I think this book was so powerful that I would hate to discourage someone from reading it because I took away from their experience before even beginning the book. Wow! This book was heavy. I just can't think of a better word to s......more

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