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Pretty Girls: A Psychological Thriller Novel Exploring Secrets and Lies Among Sisters

Karin Slaughter ()

Subgenre
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age18+

Content levels

ViolenceStrong
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageStrong

Protagonist archetypes

Ensemble CastVengeance-Driven

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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 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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Psychological ThrillerCrime FictionMysterySuspense

Pretty Girls: A Psychological Thriller Novel Exploring Secrets and Lies Among Sisters: content & age rating

Intended for adult readers (18+).

This psychological thriller contains graphic violence, murder, kidnapping, and dark themes including a decades-old disappearance and brutal crime. Strong language and mature themes of trauma and family dysfunction throughout.

What to know going in

This book has strong violence, moderate sexual content, and strong language. Content notes include murder, kidnapping, death, death of partner, and grief (see the full list above).

Who'll love this

Adult readers will be gripped by this dark psychological thriller about estranged sisters forced to confront brutal crimes and devastating family secrets.