Pretty Girls -- Karin Slaughter

<p><strong>Lee Child says it's "stunning... certain to be a book of the year."<br /> <br />Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary... a major achievement."</strong></p><p><strong>Jeffery Deaver says that <strong>"</strong>fiction doesn't get any better than this.<strong>"</strong><br /> <br />Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: "I'd follow her anywhere."<br /> <br />See for yourself what these #1 <em>New York Times</em>-bestselling authors are talking about.</strong><br /> <br /><em>Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.</em><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 /><strong>Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and un