Pretty Girls (Hardcover) by Karin Slaughter

from justacatandabook

Claire Scott leads a seemingly perfect life - she's beautiful and adored by her wealthy husband, Paul. However, Claire's life is shadowed by the disappearance of her eldest sister, Julia, over twenty years ago. Julia went missing while in college and was never seen again. In the aftermath, Claire...

from gpangel

Karin Slaughter is a seasoned author of taut suspense and she certainly knows how to weave a wicked little tale. This one though was a real mind bender. It's been over twenty years since Lydia and Claire's older sister, Julia, disappeared. Their lives took drastically different directions at that...

from bonniemarjorie

'You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.' Twenty-four years ago, nineteen-year-old Julia Carroll was walking home one night and disappeare...

from MarlaAMadison

I have to agree with some other reviewers that there is a lot of graphic violence against women in this book. I thought very often the author got way too wordy, which slows down the plot considerably for me. What I liked a lot was the relationship between the sisters and thought the book could ha...

from Carlathelibrarian

When Julia Scott disappeared at nineteen years of age, the family was destroyed. Mum Helen, Dad Sam and sisters Lydia and Claire's lives were changed the instant Julia didn't return home. Sam never gave up looking for her and eventually commits suicide, Lydia became a drug addict, Helen divorced ...