Pretty Girls is a really different kind of suspense novel. The basic story is about a family where a teenage girl went missing and afterwards, her two young sisters became estranged for over
20 years. Claire married well and leads a life of shopping, tennis, and social functions. Lydia is 17 years sober and drug free raising a child as a single parent struggling to make ends meet. The riff so long ago started when Claire's husband, Paul,attempted to rape Lydia--and no one believed her. Now Paul has been murdered and Claire is finding files and folders and videos of a violent nature in
Paul's space. The FBI and police are at the door and acting
suspiciously. Could Paul have been involved with the disappearance of young girls?--the filming of their rape and
torture and murder? Its all too much for Claire to handle so she
re-connects with her sister, knowing that she is the one person
that will understand and believe and help her make sense of the
whole mess.
Some of the descriptions in this book are pretty disturbing
but then, so is the subject matter. The chapters written by the girls' father are hauntingly beautiful and sad.
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