Pretty Girls

In Karin Slaughter's "Pretty Girls," two estranged sisters, Claire and Lydia, are forced back into each other's lives by a horrifying new tragedy that resurrects a haunting past. Claire, a glamorous trophy wife, and Lydia, a struggling single mother, have not spoken in decades, their relationship shattered by the devastating disappearance of their sister Julia over twenty years ago. When Claire's wealthy husband is brutally murdered, the present-day crime chillingly echoes the unresolved mystery of Julia's vanishing. Driven by a desperate need for answers and a reluctant truce, the sisters begin to meticulously peel back the layers of their family's history. What they uncover is a labyrinth of dark secrets, shocking betrayals, and a sinister connection between the two tragedies, separated by a quarter-century. As they delve deeper, Claire and Lydia must confront the unbearable truth about what happened to Julia and the insidious evil that has plagued their lives, leading them to an astonishing and dangerous revelation.