Pretty Girls

⚖The case for it

Two estranged sisters connected by their father's dark secret. Slaughter writes crime fiction with a scalpel, and here the incisions go deep.

— the canon

✕The case against

Slaughter tests how much sadism a reader will sit through: snuff films, a kill room, a dead father's journal spelling out atrocity in patient detail. The violence against women is both engine and cargo. And the twists demand a conspiracy that has run flawlessly for decades without one leak.

— the honest librarian