TITLE: |
Pretty girls : a novel / Karin Slaughter. |
AUTHOR: |
Slaughter, Karin, 1971- author. |
DESCRIPTION: |
396 pages ; 24 cm |
EDITION: |
First edition. |
NOTES: |
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- |
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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 de |
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stroyed their family all those years ago... and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. |
SUBJECT: |
Missing children--Fiction. |
SUBJECT: |
Murder victims' families--Fiction. |
SUBJECT: |
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction. |
SUBJECT: |
Sisters--Fiction. |
SUBJECT: |
Family secrets--Fiction. |
SUBJECT: |
Family secrets. |
SUBJECT: |
Murder victims' families. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Suspense fiction. |