Pretty Girls: Karin Slaughter

WOW. I don't even know how to describe this book, other than you would need to read it for yourself. It is the most suspenseful thing I have read. A family with three daughters is torn apart by the disappearance of the eldest daughter. The story alternates between the letters written by the father to his kidnapped child and current day lives of each of the surviving sisters. The alternating of the chapters comes with no indication of who the narrator is, but towards the end the two girls have one voice. Claire, the youngest daughter marries her oldest sister's murderer without realizing it. Years go by until the story unravels and has much larger and more gruesome history. The daughter least likely to fight back is the one who has the most control. It was clever on the author's part to show Claire liked to watch a person die, just like her husband did, showing that maybe they had more in common than you originally thought. I was left wandering why Lydia's boyfriend and daughter never called her during the hunt I didn't understand why Claire's husband had 2 groups of women, those he raped and those he killed. There was also no conclusion on if Lydia healed after her ordeal.