By the end of a long summer’s day two eleven year old girls
will meet for the first time, commit a heinous crime and then spend the rest of
their teenage years locked away in separate facilities. On another day 25 years
later those same two girls will meet again (with new identities) in a down on
its luck seaside town where a killer is busy at work. One of the girls is a
journalist covering the crimes, the other is the manager of the Funnhouse where
the first body is found. The story alternates between the past and that one
fateful day that changed their lives forever and the present where every move
has the power to reveal their past to their families, coworkers, and the town
itself. The Wicked Girls is a
ripped-from-the-headlines, dark and intensely disturbing book with characters
so finely drawn you alternate between feelings of revulsion and sympathy
totally independent of the choices that were made then and now. A true psychological
thriller at the top of its form.
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