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Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Fiction are you reading this week, April 7, 2024? [View all]MontanaMama
(24,253 posts)4. I just finished Pretty Girls by Karen Slaughter.
I listened to it on audible. I finished it because I wanted to know if the bad guys would be held accountable. I would say it’s a hair raising thriller…however, I wish I had read more about the book in terms of trigger warnings. It was upsetting to me…the violence against women aspect of it was unexpected. If I had actually read about it before I downloaded the book, I might have passed.
Synopsis:
Karin Slaughter’s thriller novel Pretty Girls (2015) chronicles a family haunted by the sudden disappearance and presumed murder of their eldest daughter, Julia. Almost 20 years later, the Carroll family remains fractured by the lasting emotional fallout, each member using different strategies to cope with their grief. Upon the death of Claire Scott’s (née Carroll) husband Paul, the family is dragged back into the spotlight, but with new information that situates Paul at the center of Julia’s disappearance. Yet another young woman recently went missing under similar circumstances, exacerbating their resurgent trauma.
Slaughter situates the story in a realistic portrayal of Atlanta, Georgia, in the present day, taking care to include all the law enforcement and gender politic influences that complicate missing persons cases and femicides in the American South.
Slaughter situates the story in a realistic portrayal of Atlanta, Georgia, in the present day, taking care to include all the law enforcement and gender politic influences that complicate missing persons cases and femicides in the American South.
It was riveting but be prepared…
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