Pretty Girls (includes the short story ''Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes'')
[Read by Kathleen Early]From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a stand-alone novel about family and belonging, justice and retribution, the decisions we make -- and the choices that haunt us. Pretty Girls also includes the chilling short story...
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[Read by Kathleen Early]From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a stand-alone novel about family and belonging, justice and retribution, the decisions we make -- and the choices that haunt us. Pretty Girls also includes the chilling short story ''Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes.'' Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. 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-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 destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.
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Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781504610711 (1504610717)
ASIN: 1504610717
Publish date: 2015-09-29
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. & Buck 50 Productions, LLC
Pages no: 1
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 ...