Pretty Girls: A Novel
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780062429056 (0062429051)
ASIN: 0062429051
Publish date: 2015-09-29
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
I'm a bit of an outlier with this one here on BL - most of the ratings are quite a bit higher than this one. I really like Slaughter's Will Trent series, which features a GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) detective who is dyslexic and functionally illiterate. This is actually fairly implausib...
Absolutely terrifying. Some scenes were so disturbing that at times I had to pause the audiobook just so I could take a deep breath and be reassured that this wasn't really happening. Please note that I am not overly sensitive with these things and I usually read disturbing things, but the plot + th...
It's always nice to dip back into the writings of an author who demands your respect and grabs your attention from the first page. What Karin Slaughter is the master off is telling stories around small communities, the people that live therein and the cruel and often dysfunctional lives they lead. T...
When Claire’s husband is murdered and a young girl, who looks a lot like her sister who disappeared 20 years ago, is missing she reaches out to her estranged sister, Lydia, for support. The book is intense and needs all sorts of trigger warnings slapped on it. That being said it was one of the onl...
More than twenty years ago, Julia Carroll vanished without a trace. Her two younger sisters haven't spoken since. Claire is married to a millionaire and has no children. Lydia is a single mother, dating an ex-con and struggling to make ends meet. Although they couldn't be more different, they still ...