Pretty Girls: A Novel

<p>Lee Child says it's &quot;stunning ... certain to be a book of the year.&quot;<br> <br>Kathy Reichs calls it &quot;extraordinary ... a major achievement.&quot;</p><p>Jeffery Deaver says that &quot;fiction doesn't get any better than this.&quot;<br> <br>Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: &quot;I'd follow her anywhere.&quot;<br> <br>See for yourself what these #1 New York Times-bestselling authors are talking about.<br> <br>Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>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.</p>