作者/卡琳·斯勞特（Karin Slaughter）

全世界深受歡迎和贊譽的小說傢，她的19部小說在全球120多個國傢售齣超過3500萬冊，其中包括“格蘭特郡係列”和“威爾·特倫特係列”小說，以及獲得埃德加·愛倫·坡奬提名的《警察鎮》，《紐約時報》暢銷小說《黑屋中的小美人》《 好女兒》和《她的碎片》。2018年之夏，隨著其“威爾·特倫特係列”最新小說《最後的寡婦》的齣版，斯勞特華麗迴歸。斯勞特也是“拯救圖書館”項目的創始人，該項目旨在為圖書館提供各項支持和規劃。她齣生於美國佐治亞州，現居住在亞特蘭大，她的單本（非係列）小說《她的碎片》《好女兒》和《警察鎮》正被翻拍為電影和電視劇。

譯者/張春敏

中南大學外國語學院副教授，碩士生導師，英語演講口譯競賽資深培訓師。譯有《傷心咖啡館之歌》等作品。閑暇之餘寫書、譯書、繪畫。

#1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives.

Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

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.

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.

Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful thriller from one of the finest suspense writers working today.