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Published : Tuesday 14 September 2021
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Darkly delicious . . . Nice Girlsis about the girlhood we never really leave behind, and what happens when we dare to confront our past demons.A pulsating mystery with a narrator you won't soon forget. Laura Dave, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Last Thing He Told Me
"If youre a total true crime addict, Catherine Dangs debut novel will have you hookedrealfast." Cosmopolitan
Recommended by New York Times Book Review Entertainment Weekly Cosmopolitan Los Angeles Times Harper's Bazaar New York Post E! Online Bustle Popsugar CrimeReads The Nerd Daily PureWow Mystery Suspense Magazine Criminal Element and more!
A pulse-pounding and razor-sharp debut with the emotional punch of Luckiest Girl Alive and All the Missing Girls that explores the hungry, angry, dark side of girlhood and dares to ask: Which is more dangerous for a womanshowing the world what it wants to see, or who she really is?
What did you do?
Mary used to be such a nice girl. She was the resident whiz kid of Liberty Lake, Minnesotathe quiet, chubby teen with the scholarship to an Ivy League school. But three years later, Ivy League Mary is backa thinner, cynical, restless failure who was kicked out of Cor-nell at the beginning of her senior year and wont tell anyone why. Taking a job at the local grocery store, Mary tries to make sense of her lifes sharp downward spiral.
Then beautiful, magnetic Olivia Willand goes missing. A rising social media star, Olivia is admired by everyone in Liberty Lakeexcept Mary. Once Olivias best friend, Mary knows better than anyone that behind the Instagram persona hides a willful, manipulative girl with sharp edges. As the town obsesses over perfect, lovely Olivia, Mary wonders if her disappearance might be tied to another missing person: nineteen-year-old DeMaria Jackson, whose case has been widely dismissed as a runaway.
Who is the real Olivia Willand, and where did she go? What happened to DeMaria? As Mary pries at the cracks in the careful facades surrounding the two missing girls, old wounds will bleed fresh and force her to confront a horrible truth.
Maybe there are no nice girls, after all.
Complex characters, questionable choices, and conflicted feelings about who we are and the people we leave behind combine in a compelling thriller that will have you flipping pages to discover how it all fits together.Darby Kane, #1 internationally bestselling author ofPretty Little Wife
Nice Girlsfinds itself amongthe most haunting of mysteries, those that resonate with our current affairs, like Alyssa ColesWhen No One Is Watchingand Rumaan AlamsLeave the World Behind.Perfect for the millennial armchair detective, Nice Girlswill satisfy your true crime addiction and intensify your desire for justice.Paperback Paris
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