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* NotTheFirstVictim: [[spoiler:Julia is ultimately revealed to have been one of the first victims of the present-day SerialKiller, Claire's husband, Paul. In fact, he married her specifically because of her relationship to Julia. And he also killed their father, Sam, and made it look like a suicide.]]
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* GriefInducedSplit: After Julia's disappearance and murder (though her body is [[FinallyFoundTheBody not found for decades]]), her parents, Sam and Helen, split up. They remain on good terms, though, [[spoiler:even sleeping together sporadically (a fact which Helen's new husband seems both aware and somewhat accepting of).]]
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* TurnOutLikeThisFather: [[spoiler:Paul Scott's father was a peeping tom, who went on to kidnap and torture young women and recorded it all on VHS, before killing and raping them. Paul 'learned the trade' from him when he was a teenager.]]
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* TurnOutLikeThisFather: TurnOutLikeHisFather: [[spoiler:Paul Scott's father was a peeping tom, who went on to kidnap and torture young women and recorded it all on VHS, before killing and raping them. Paul 'learned the trade' from him when he was a teenager.]]
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* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British]] cover is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
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* BeautyMark: Paul has a 'small constellation of moles' on his left shoulderblade. [[spoiler:She uses this as an identifying mark on whether Paul is or isn't the masked man.]]
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British]] cover is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British]] cover is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
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* InTheBlood: [[spoiler:Paul Scott's father was a peeping tom, who went on to kidnap and torture young women and recorded it all on VHS, before killing and raping them. Paul 'learned the trade' from him when he was a teenager.]]
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* ContraceptionDeception: Claire lies to Paul that she wants children (which he does), but she continues taking birth control, because of her FreudianExcuse of losing her older sister Julia when she was a kid and Julia was a teenager. This turns out to be LaserGuidedKarma, though, for Paul, who [[spoiler: created videos of himself raping, torturing, and killing kidnapped girls, and there's a pretty strong implication that he wanted kids to abuse.]]
-->Her husband made it clear he wanted a big family. He wanted lots and lots of kids to inoculate himself against loss and Claire had tried and tried with him until she had agreed to go see a fertility expert who had informed Claire that she couldn't have children because she had an [=IUD=] and was taking birth control pills.
-->Her husband made it clear he wanted a big family. He wanted lots and lots of kids to inoculate himself against loss and Claire had tried and tried with him until she had agreed to go see a fertility expert who had informed Claire that she couldn't have children because she had an [=IUD=] and was taking birth control pills.
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* WitlessProtectionProgram: [[spoiler:Paul]] was somehow able to gain immunity, despite being the one who [[spoiler:kidnapped, raped, tortured, and ultimately killed many women]], and after all that, [[spoiler:he was in the area to reveal himself to Claire.]]
* YourCheatingHeart
** Claire has had affairs during her marriage, including Adam Quinn and one of her caterers.
** Helen continued to sleep with her ex-husband, even after she got remarried.
* YourCheatingHeart
** Claire has had affairs during her marriage, including Adam Quinn and one of her caterers.
** Helen continued to sleep with her ex-husband, even after she got remarried.
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* YourCheatingHeart
** Claire has had affairs during her marriage, including Adam Quinn and one of her caterers.
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* YourCheatingHeart
** Claire has had affairs during her marriage, including Adam Quinn and one of her caterers.
** Helen continued to sleep with her ex-husband, even after she got remarried.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: All of the victims in the snuff films, as detailed under CruelAndUnusualDeath.
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* FinallyFoundTheBody: They NeverFoundTheBody that belonged to Julia, until [[spoiler:Claire tracked Paul down to his childhood home and he revealed that she was buried there.]]
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* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:Everybody thinks Sam committed suicide over Julia's death, but he didn't; Paul killed him.]]
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Julia was beautiful, and so is Claire, which leads to people underestimating her and kidnapping and murdering Julia.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Claire smashed and dislocated a woman's kneecap, because she [[VictimBlaming blamed a girl]] that was raped at a frat party for drinking and not knowing it would happen.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Claire smashed and dislocated a woman's kneecap, because she [[VictimBlaming [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blamed a girl]] that was raped at a frat party for drinking and not knowing it would happen.
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* ArcWords: "Tell me you want this."
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* ControlFreak: Paul.
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* DestroyTheAbusiveHome: [[spoiler:Claire and Paul burn down his childhood home in their final confrontation.]]
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* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:Paul]] is eventually revealed to be this, as [[spoiler:his father taught him to rape, torture, and kill women. He relishes his position and chases Claire specifically because she's Julia's sister.]]
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* CallBack: Captain Mayhew assures Claire that the snuff videos she found were fakes, explaining how these videos use things called squibs, little bags filled with fake blood that burst through remote control or when pressure is applied to them. During the last third of the novel, Fred Nolan brings up squibs again[[spoiler:, to explain that Paul's death in the beginning was faked]].
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia was responsible, before she started to mingle with the wrong crowd and took drugs, eventually leaving the family. Claire was seen as more responsible, once Lydia left, but grew up to mostly be a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
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* CassandraTruth: Lydia told Claire that Paul tried to rape her, but she refused to believe her. [[spoiler:Once she begins to see that Paul might not be as great of a guy as she initially thought, she asks Lydia for a proper explanation and realizes that she was telling the truth.
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* CassandraTruth: Lydia told Claire that Paul tried to rape her, but she refused to believe her. [[spoiler:Once she begins to see that Paul might not be as great of a guy as she initially thought, she asks Lydia for a proper explanation and realizes that she was telling the truth.]]
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* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British]] cover is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
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* FoolingSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia was responsible, before she started to mingle with the wrong crowd and took drugs, eventually leaving the family. Claire was seen as more responsible, once Lydia left, but grew up to mostly be a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
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* CheckhovsGun: The [[spoiler:keytag]] in the beginning is off-handedly mentioned, then becomes much sought-after by various people and proves much more valuable. [[spoiler:It contains pictures and contact information on all of Paul's... 'clients'.]]
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''Pretty Girls'' is a horror/mystery novel written by Karin Slaughter.
Julia Carroll has been missing for over twenty years.\\
Recently, the news has been filled nonstop with the case of Anna Kilpatrick, another girl that has disappeared without leaving a trace, and she was around the same age as Julia was back then. Lydia Delgado and Claire Scott, Julia's younger sisters, have split off from each other and gone on to lead their own lives. But Julia's disappearance still weighs heavily on the mind of her family and Anna Kilpatrick's case is too similar to Julia's for them to ignore it.
And Claire Scott's life is upheaved quickly around this time.\\
After finally getting rid of the court-mandated anklebracelet that she has been lugging around for a while, Claire wants to forget what happened and continue life with her devoted husband, Paul. But when they meet on that day, they are robbed at knife-point and Paul gets fatally stabbed when trying to save his wife.
Now a widow, Claire tries to cope.\\
Then she finds pornographic videos on her husband's computer, which go beyond the simple nature and depict young women getting brutally tortured, before being raped and murdered...
Millions of questions explode in her mind: why did Paul have such videos? Was he into a weird fetish or actually hiding a dark, brutal side of himself? Are the videos real? Or faked, being nothing more than graphic snuff porn? And one of those girls in the videos looks an awful lot like Anna Kilpatrick...
Julia Carroll has been missing for over twenty years.\\
Recently, the news has been filled nonstop with the case of Anna Kilpatrick, another girl that has disappeared without leaving a trace, and she was around the same age as Julia was back then. Lydia Delgado and Claire Scott, Julia's younger sisters, have split off from each other and gone on to lead their own lives. But Julia's disappearance still weighs heavily on the mind of her family and Anna Kilpatrick's case is too similar to Julia's for them to ignore it.
And Claire Scott's life is upheaved quickly around this time.\\
After finally getting rid of the court-mandated anklebracelet that she has been lugging around for a while, Claire wants to forget what happened and continue life with her devoted husband, Paul. But when they meet on that day, they are robbed at knife-point and Paul gets fatally stabbed when trying to save his wife.
Now a widow, Claire tries to cope.\\
Then she finds pornographic videos on her husband's computer, which go beyond the simple nature and depict young women getting brutally tortured, before being raped and murdered...
Millions of questions explode in her mind: why did Paul have such videos? Was he into a weird fetish or actually hiding a dark, brutal side of himself? Are the videos real? Or faked, being nothing more than graphic snuff porn? And one of those girls in the videos looks an awful lot like Anna Kilpatrick...
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Julia Carroll has been
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Now a widow, Claire tries to cope.
Twenty years ago, Julia Carroll went missing.\\
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* TheAlcoholic: Helen Carroll began to drink heavily after Julia disappeared, but seems to have learned to cut back since.
* TheAlcoholic: Helen Carroll began to drink heavily after Julia disappeared, but seems to have learned to cut back since.
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Pettry Girls contains the following Tropes
* TheAlcoholic: Helen Carroll began to drinkheavily heavily, after Julia disappeared, but seems disappeared. She does seem to have learned to cut back since.over time.
* TheAlcoholic: Helen Carroll began to drink
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* ArcNumber: 03/04/1991; the date of Julia's disappearance.
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British cover]] is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The keytag-USB that Paul gives Claire in the beginning]] becomes a much sought-after item and proves much more valuable than initially thought. [[spoiler:It contains pictures and information on all of Paul's... 'clients'.]]
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Sam Carroll started to visit Ben Carver on death row and spoke to him, because his daughter's police files reveal that he may have known something about Julia's disappearance.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of the women in the snuff videos. They were tortured over a course of several days with things such as a cattle prod and branding iron, subjected to waterboarding and cut up with a knife. Finally, they were sliced with a machete and raped as they were dying. [[spoiler:And it's revealed that they were mutilated post-mortem as well.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Sam Carroll killed himself several years after Julia disappeared. [[spoiler:Turns out that he didn't commit suicide, but that Paul was the one to inject the fatal medicine.]]
* FakingTheDead: Turns out that [[spoiler:Paul Scott's death in the beginning was faked, set up with the FBI's help]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia first [[PromotionToParent played the mom]] for Claire after Julia's disappearance, but once she started taking drugs and left the family, ''Claire'' was seen as the more responsible one. When they meet again, Lydia is bearing the responsibility of being a single mother and Claire is less responsible, mostly being a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies of a heart attack, just as the information about the snuff film spreads across the internet, leaving Claire to claim [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] to be the only one to have gotten away with murder.
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire watches one of the torture videos and the masked man in it whispers something to the victim. She immediately turns the volume up, rewinds and replays the scene over and over, until she can hear what the man says. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this." which is one of the two clues that the masked man is, indeed, Paul.]]
* TheSheriff: Sheriff Carl Huckabee is in charge of the Athens area and was the sheriff in charge of Julia's disappearance.
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British cover]] is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The keytag-USB that Paul gives Claire in the beginning]] becomes a much sought-after item and proves much more valuable than initially thought. [[spoiler:It contains pictures and information on all of Paul's... 'clients'.]]
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Sam Carroll started to visit Ben Carver on death row and spoke to him, because his daughter's police files reveal that he may have known something about Julia's disappearance.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of the women in the snuff videos. They were tortured over a course of several days with things such as a cattle prod and branding iron, subjected to waterboarding and cut up with a knife. Finally, they were sliced with a machete and raped as they were dying. [[spoiler:And it's revealed that they were mutilated post-mortem as well.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Sam Carroll killed himself several years after Julia disappeared. [[spoiler:Turns out that he didn't commit suicide, but that Paul was the one to inject the fatal medicine.]]
* FakingTheDead: Turns out that [[spoiler:Paul Scott's death in the beginning was faked, set up with the FBI's help]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia first [[PromotionToParent played the mom]] for Claire after Julia's disappearance, but once she started taking drugs and left the family, ''Claire'' was seen as the more responsible one. When they meet again, Lydia is bearing the responsibility of being a single mother and Claire is less responsible, mostly being a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies of a heart attack, just as the information about the snuff film spreads across the internet, leaving Claire to claim [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] to be the only one to have gotten away with murder.
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire watches one of the torture videos and the masked man in it whispers something to the victim. She immediately turns the volume up, rewinds and replays the scene over and over, until she can hear what the man says. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this." which is one of the two clues that the masked man is, indeed, Paul.]]
* TheSheriff: Sheriff Carl Huckabee is in charge of the Athens area and was the sheriff in charge of Julia's disappearance.
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* AmicableExes: Sam and Helen Carroll eventually got divorced when the strain of Julia's disappearance and their lack of knowledge broke their marriage. They still loved each other, even when Helen got remarried.
* ArcNumber:03/04/1991; 03/04/1991, the date of Julia's disappearance.
* AssholeVictim
** Zigzagged in the case of [[spoiler:Paul Scott]]. First considered to not be this trope, but seen as a possibility when shadier personality aspects begin to arise, before doubt goes back to the first part. [[spoiler:When Paul's true monstrosity is revealed, it's almost a triumph and joy to see him die for real.]]
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]], when their role in the torture porn circle is made clear.
* BeautyMark: Paul has a 'small constellation of moles' on his left shoulderblade. [[spoiler:She uses this as an identifying mark on whether Paul is or isn't the masked man.]]
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The[[http://www.[[www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British cover]] British]] cover is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
*ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The keytag-USB CallBack: Captain Mayhew assures Claire that the snuff videos she found were fakes, explaining how these videos use things called squibs, little bags filled with fake blood that burst through remote control or when pressure is applied to them. During the last third of the novel, Fred Nolan brings up squibs again[[spoiler:, to explain that Paul's death in the beginning was faked]].
* CassandraTruth: Lydia told Claire that Paulgives Claire tried to rape her, but she refused to believe her. [[spoiler:Once she begins to see that Paul might not be as great of a guy as she initially thought, she asks Lydia for a proper explanation and realizes that she was telling the truth.
* CheckhovsGun: The [[spoiler:keytag]] in thebeginning]] beginning is off-handedly mentioned, then becomes a much sought-after item by various people and proves much more valuable than initially thought. valuable. [[spoiler:It contains pictures and contact information on all of Paul's... 'clients'.]]
*ConsultingAConvictedKiller: ChekhovsGunman: Sam Carroll started to visit Ben Carver on death row and spoke to him, because his daughter's police files reveal that he may have known something about mentions multiple suspects listed in Julia's disappearance.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All ofpolice files, whom the women police has spoken to or investigated, ranging from employees in locations she frequented to peeping tom to classmates. [[spoiler:The peeping tom mentioned is not only the snuff videos. They were tortured over a course of several days with things such as a cattle prod and branding iron, subjected to waterboarding and cut up with a knife. Finally, they were sliced with a machete and raped as they were dying. [[spoiler:And it's revealed that they were mutilated post-mortem as well.one who killed Julia, but is also Paul's deceased father.]]
*DrivenToSuicide: ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Sam Carroll killed himself began to visit Ben Carver, a homosexual serial killer, on death row and spoke with him, because Julia's police file mentions that he implied to have known something about her disappearance.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath
** All of the woman in the snuff videos. Kidnapped, then tortured over the course of severalyears after Julia disappeared. [[spoiler:Turns out days with things such as cattle prods, branding irons, subjected to waterboarding and cut up with knives. Finally, they were sliced with a matchete and raped as they died. [[spoiler:And then it's revealed that he didn't commit suicide, but that Paul was the one to inject the fatal medicine.they were mutilated post-mortem as well.]]
* FakingTheDead: Turns out that ** [[spoiler:Paul Scott's death in the beginning was faked, set Scott]] ends up with the FBI's help]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia first [[PromotionToParent played the mom]] for Claire after Julia's disappearance, but once she started taking drugs and left the family, ''Claire'' was seen as the more responsible one. When they meet again, Lydia is bearing the responsibility ofbeing a single mother and Claire is less responsible, mostly being a trophy wife forced to her millionaire husband.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies ofbleed out from a heart attack, just as the information about the snuff film spreads across the internet, leaving Claire to claim [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] to be the only one to have gotten away with murder.
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire watches one of the torture videos and the masked man in it whispers something to the victim. She immediately turns the volume up, rewinds and replays the scene over and over, until she can hear what the man says. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this."neck wound, which is one of takes a while. [[spoiler:Though given the two clues that the masked man is, indeed, Paul.things he had done and was planning to do, this is not considered too cruel for him.]]
** [[spoiler:Sam Carroll]], who turns out to have been [[spoiler:forced to watch Julia's torture and eventual death, all while being held in place by Paul, before he killed him with the medicine]].
* DeadGuyJunior: Lydia named her daughter Julia, after her missing sister. Though she does not go by that name.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Claire smashed and dislocated a woman's kneecap, because she [[VictimBlaming blamed a girl]] that was raped at a frat party for drinking and not knowing it would happen.
* DrivenToSuicide: Sam Carroll killed himself via lethal injection several years after Julia disappeared. [[spoiler:Turns out that he didn't commit suicide, but was killed by Paul injecting the medicine.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Paul Scott's death in the beginning was staged with the help of the FBI.]]
* FoolingSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia was responsible, before she started to mingle with the wrong crowd and took drugs, eventually leaving the family. Claire was seen as more responsible, once Lydia left, but grew up to mostly be a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
* HappilyMarried
** Paul and Claire Scott have been going strong for 18 years. Even when Claire had a few flings on the side, she still remained deeply in love with Paul. And Paul was always a devoted, attentive husband.
** Sam and Helen Carroll were happily married, until the strain of Julia's disappearance began to strain things.
* InSeriesNickname: Sheriff Huckabee was called 'Huckleberry' by the Carrolls, which has grown to become their nickname for the police investigators in general.
* InTheBlood: [[spoiler:Paul Scott's father was a peeping tom, who went on to kidnap and torture young women and recorded it all on VHS, before killing and raping them. Paul 'learned the trade' from him when he was a teenager.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies from a heart attack, just as the information about the snuff film circle spreads across the internet, meaning no actual consequences will ever be taken.
* KillItWithFire: Paul's mother was caught in the car's fire from the accident.
* KindlyVet: Sam Carroll worked as a vet for a long time, treating animals. His granddaughter, Dee, is thinking of studying to become one in college.
* MamaBear: Lydia is fiercely protective of her daughter, Dee.
* OffWithHisHead: Paul's father was decapitated in the car accident that killed him and his wife.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Dee is actually a nickname that came from Deedus Christ, something often said in her youth. She admits to thinking of going back to using her actual name when it's time to head off to college.
* RecoveredAddict
** Lydia took cocaine and other drugs for a long time. Once she split from her family and got pregnant later on, she immediately went cold turkey, because she didn't want her child to be taken away. She has been clean for 17 years.
** Helen Carroll, too, considering her previously heavy drinking.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Helen knew what had happened to Julia for years, because she found her husband's corpse and the video of Julia's torture was still in the player. She decided to keep it to herself, wanting to protect her children from the horror that their sister went through.]]
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire does this when the masked man whispers something to his victim in a video. She turns up the volume and replays it, until she can hear what he is saying. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this", which is one of the two big clues that the masked man is, indeed, Paul.]]
* TheRunaway: Sheriff Huckabee quickly formed the theory that Julia was not the victim of a crime, but simply a teen that ran away from home and likely joined some 'free thinking cult' in the end.
* TheSheriff: SheriffCarl Huckabee is in charge of the Athens area and Huckabee, who was the sheriff in charge of Julia's disappearance.case.
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* AssholeVictim
** Zigzagged in the case of [[spoiler:Paul Scott]]. First considered to not be this trope, but seen as a possibility when shadier personality aspects begin to arise, before doubt goes back to the first part. [[spoiler:When Paul's true monstrosity is revealed, it's almost a triumph and joy to see him die for real.]]
** Played straight with [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]], when their role in the torture porn circle is made clear.
* BeautyMark: Paul has a 'small constellation of moles' on his left shoulderblade. [[spoiler:She uses this as an identifying mark on whether Paul is or isn't the masked man.]]
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The
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* CassandraTruth: Lydia told Claire that Paul
* CheckhovsGun: The [[spoiler:keytag]] in the
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath
** All of the woman in the snuff videos. Kidnapped, then tortured over the course of several
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia first [[PromotionToParent played the mom]] for Claire after Julia's disappearance, but once she started taking drugs and left the family, ''Claire'' was seen as the more responsible one. When they meet again, Lydia is bearing the responsibility of
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies of
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire watches one of the torture videos and the masked man in it whispers something to the victim. She immediately turns the volume up, rewinds and replays the scene over and over, until she can hear what the man says. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this."
** [[spoiler:Sam Carroll]], who turns out to have been [[spoiler:forced to watch Julia's torture and eventual death, all while being held in place by Paul, before he killed him with the medicine]].
* DeadGuyJunior: Lydia named her daughter Julia, after her missing sister. Though she does not go by that name.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Claire smashed and dislocated a woman's kneecap, because she [[VictimBlaming blamed a girl]] that was raped at a frat party for drinking and not knowing it would happen.
* DrivenToSuicide: Sam Carroll killed himself via lethal injection several years after Julia disappeared. [[spoiler:Turns out that he didn't commit suicide, but was killed by Paul injecting the medicine.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Paul Scott's death in the beginning was staged with the help of the FBI.]]
* FoolingSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia was responsible, before she started to mingle with the wrong crowd and took drugs, eventually leaving the family. Claire was seen as more responsible, once Lydia left, but grew up to mostly be a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
* HappilyMarried
** Paul and Claire Scott have been going strong for 18 years. Even when Claire had a few flings on the side, she still remained deeply in love with Paul. And Paul was always a devoted, attentive husband.
** Sam and Helen Carroll were happily married, until the strain of Julia's disappearance began to strain things.
* InSeriesNickname: Sheriff Huckabee was called 'Huckleberry' by the Carrolls, which has grown to become their nickname for the police investigators in general.
* InTheBlood: [[spoiler:Paul Scott's father was a peeping tom, who went on to kidnap and torture young women and recorded it all on VHS, before killing and raping them. Paul 'learned the trade' from him when he was a teenager.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies from a heart attack, just as the information about the snuff film circle spreads across the internet, meaning no actual consequences will ever be taken.
* KillItWithFire: Paul's mother was caught in the car's fire from the accident.
* KindlyVet: Sam Carroll worked as a vet for a long time, treating animals. His granddaughter, Dee, is thinking of studying to become one in college.
* MamaBear: Lydia is fiercely protective of her daughter, Dee.
* OffWithHisHead: Paul's father was decapitated in the car accident that killed him and his wife.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Dee is actually a nickname that came from Deedus Christ, something often said in her youth. She admits to thinking of going back to using her actual name when it's time to head off to college.
* RecoveredAddict
** Lydia took cocaine and other drugs for a long time. Once she split from her family and got pregnant later on, she immediately went cold turkey, because she didn't want her child to be taken away. She has been clean for 17 years.
** Helen Carroll, too, considering her previously heavy drinking.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Helen knew what had happened to Julia for years, because she found her husband's corpse and the video of Julia's torture was still in the player. She decided to keep it to herself, wanting to protect her children from the horror that their sister went through.]]
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire does this when the masked man whispers something to his victim in a video. She turns up the volume and replays it, until she can hear what he is saying. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this", which is one of the two big clues that the masked man is, indeed, Paul.]]
* TheRunaway: Sheriff Huckabee quickly formed the theory that Julia was not the victim of a crime, but simply a teen that ran away from home and likely joined some 'free thinking cult' in the end.
* TheSheriff: Sheriff
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Adam Quinn. [[spoiler:He honestly had no idea what Paul was doing, but his asking for Claire to give him the files on the PC caused her to find the videos and led her down the path of finding out the truth.]]
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay
** Ben Carver gives Sam Carroll a hint about Julia's disappearance by giving him a copy of ''You Are Old Only Once!'' by Dr. Seuss and having a line written inside: "First you must have the images. Then come the words." [[spoiler:The term ''images'' was used by a peeping tom, saying his watching was taking images of the girls. Sam realizes that said peeping tom was the one to take Julia and is Paul's father.]]
** Claire realizes the masked man's identity when she hears him say [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this"]] in one of his videos.
* StealingFromTheTill: Fred Nolan reveals to Claire that Paul has been stealing 3 million dollars from his own firm, despite already being very rich.
* TapOnTheHead
** Averted with Lydia, who got hit on the head at least twice, before she fell unconscious.
** Played straight with Claire, who gets punched in the face once and faints. And it's even said that full force was not used on her.
* [[TortureCellar Torture Basement]]: The location the snuff filmes take place in one. [[spoiler:Subverted, when it turns out to be a ''garage'' that was meticulously altered to look like a basement.]] [[spoiler:There is also the Torture Barn, used by Paul's father.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Adam Quinn. [[spoiler:Hehonestly had no idea what Paul was doing, but his asking for asked Claire to give send him the work-in-progress files on the PC caused from Paul's computer, which resulted in her to find finding the videos and led leading her down the path of finding out wanting to know the truth.]]]]
* YourCheatingHeart
** Claire has had affairs during her marriage, including Adam Quinn and one of her caterers.
** Helen continued to sleep with her ex-husband, even after she got remarried.
** Ben Carver gives Sam Carroll a hint about Julia's disappearance by giving him a copy of ''You Are Old Only Once!'' by Dr. Seuss and having a line written inside: "First you must have the images. Then come the words." [[spoiler:The term ''images'' was used by a peeping tom, saying his watching was taking images of the girls. Sam realizes that said peeping tom was the one to take Julia and is Paul's father.]]
** Claire realizes the masked man's identity when she hears him say [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this"]] in one of his videos.
* StealingFromTheTill: Fred Nolan reveals to Claire that Paul has been stealing 3 million dollars from his own firm, despite already being very rich.
* TapOnTheHead
** Averted with Lydia, who got hit on the head at least twice, before she fell unconscious.
** Played straight with Claire, who gets punched in the face once and faints. And it's even said that full force was not used on her.
* [[TortureCellar Torture Basement]]: The location the snuff filmes take place in one. [[spoiler:Subverted, when it turns out to be a ''garage'' that was meticulously altered to look like a basement.]] [[spoiler:There is also the Torture Barn, used by Paul's father.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Adam Quinn. [[spoiler:He
* YourCheatingHeart
** Claire has had affairs during her marriage, including Adam Quinn and one of her caterers.
** Helen continued to sleep with her ex-husband, even after she got remarried.
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* TheAlcoholic: Helen Carroll began to drink heavily after Julia disappeared, but seems to have learned to cut back since.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Sam Carroll killed himself several years after Julia disappeared. [[spoiler:Turns out that he didn't commit suicide, but that Paul was the one to inject the fatal medicine.]]
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Recently, the news has been filled nonstop with the case of Anna Kilpatrick, another girl that has disappeared without leaving a trace, and she was around the same age as Julia was back then.
Lydia Delgado and Claire Scott, Julia's younger sisters, have split off from each other and gone on to lead their own lives. But Julia's disappearance still weighs heavily on the mind of her family and Anna Kilpatrick's case is too similar to Julia's for them to ignore it.
Lydia Delgado and Claire Scott, Julia's younger sisters, have split off from each other and gone on to lead their own lives. But Julia's disappearance still weighs heavily on the mind of her family and Anna Kilpatrick's case is too similar to Julia's for them to ignore it.
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Recently, the news has been filled nonstop with the case of Anna Kilpatrick, another girl that has disappeared without leaving a trace, and she was around the same age as Julia was back then.
then. Lydia Delgado and Claire Scott, Julia's younger sisters, have split off from each other and gone on to lead their own lives. But Julia's disappearance still weighs heavily on the mind of her family and Anna Kilpatrick's case is too similar to Julia's for them to ignore it.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The keytag-USB that Paul gives Claire in the beginning]] becomes a much sought-after item and proves much more valuable than initially thought. [[spoiler:It contains pictures and information on all of Paul's... 'clients'.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of the women in the snuff videos. They were tortured over a course of several days with things such as a cattle prod and branding iron, subjected to waterboarding and cut up with a knife. Finally, they were sliced with a machete and raped as they were dying. [[spoiler:And it's revealed that they were mutilated post-mortem as well.]]
* FakingTheDead: Turns out that [[spoiler:Paul Scott's death in the beginning was faked, set up with the FBI's help]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia first [[PromotionToParent played the mom]] for Claire after Julia's disappearance, but once she started taking drugs and left the family, ''Claire'' was seen as the more responsible one. When they meet again, Lydia is bearing the responsibility of being a single mother and Claire is less responsible, mostly being a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies of a heart attack, just as the information about the snuff film spreads across the internet, leaving Claire to claim [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] to be the only one to have gotten away with murder.
* FakingTheDead: Turns out that [[spoiler:Paul Scott's death in the beginning was faked, set up with the FBI's help]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged with Lydia and Claire. Lydia first [[PromotionToParent played the mom]] for Claire after Julia's disappearance, but once she started taking drugs and left the family, ''Claire'' was seen as the more responsible one. When they meet again, Lydia is bearing the responsibility of being a single mother and Claire is less responsible, mostly being a trophy wife to her millionaire husband.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] dies of a heart attack, just as the information about the snuff film spreads across the internet, leaving Claire to claim [[spoiler:Sheriff Carl Huckabee]] to be the only one to have gotten away with murder.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Adam Quinn. [[spoiler:He honestly had no idea what Paul was doing, but his asking for Claire to give him the files on the PC caused her to find the videos and led her down the path of finding out the truth.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Adam Quinn. [[spoiler:He honestly had no idea what Paul was doing, but his asking for Claire to give him the files on the PC caused her to find the videos and led her down the path of finding out the truth.]]
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''Pretty Girls'' is a horror/mystery novel written by Karin Slaughter.
Julia Carroll has been missing for over twenty years.\\
Recently, the news has been filled nonstop with the case of Anna Kilpatrick, another girl that has disappeared without leaving a trace, and she was around the same age as Julia was back then.
Lydia Delgado and Claire Scott, Julia's younger sisters, have split off from each other and gone on to lead their own lives. But Julia's disappearance still weighs heavily on the mind of her family and Anna Kilpatrick's case is too similar to Julia's for them to ignore it.
And Claire Scott's life is upheaved quickly around this time.\\
After finally getting rid of the court-mandated anklebracelet that she has been lugging around for a while, Claire wants to forget what happened and continue life with her devoted husband, Paul. But when they meet on that day, they are robbed at knife-point and Paul gets fatally stabbed when trying to save his wife.
Now a widow, Claire tries to cope.\\
Then she finds pornographic videos on her husband's computer, which go beyond the simple nature and depict young women getting brutally tortured, before being raped and murdered...
Millions of questions explode in her mind: why did Paul have such videos? Was he into a weird fetish or actually hiding a dark, brutal side of himself? Are the videos real? Or faked, being nothing more than graphic snuff porn? And one of those girls in the videos looks an awful lot like Anna Kilpatrick...
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!! Contains Examples Of
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler:Lydia Delgado with Paul Scott]] for the last third of the novel.
* ArcNumber: 03/04/1991; the date of Julia's disappearance.
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British cover]] is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Sam Carroll started to visit Ben Carver on death row and spoke to him, because his daughter's police files reveal that he may have known something about Julia's disappearance.
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire watches one of the torture videos and the masked man in it whispers something to the victim. She immediately turns the volume up, rewinds and replays the scene over and over, until she can hear what the man says. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this." which is one of the two clues that the masked man is, indeed, Paul.]]
* TheSheriff: Sheriff Carl Huckabee is in charge of the Athens area and was the sheriff in charge of Julia's disappearance.
* SnuffFilm: The videos that Claire finds on Paul's computer.
''Pretty Girls'' is a horror/mystery novel written by Karin Slaughter.
Julia Carroll has been missing for over twenty years.\\
Recently, the news has been filled nonstop with the case of Anna Kilpatrick, another girl that has disappeared without leaving a trace, and she was around the same age as Julia was back then.
Lydia Delgado and Claire Scott, Julia's younger sisters, have split off from each other and gone on to lead their own lives. But Julia's disappearance still weighs heavily on the mind of her family and Anna Kilpatrick's case is too similar to Julia's for them to ignore it.
And Claire Scott's life is upheaved quickly around this time.\\
After finally getting rid of the court-mandated anklebracelet that she has been lugging around for a while, Claire wants to forget what happened and continue life with her devoted husband, Paul. But when they meet on that day, they are robbed at knife-point and Paul gets fatally stabbed when trying to save his wife.
Now a widow, Claire tries to cope.\\
Then she finds pornographic videos on her husband's computer, which go beyond the simple nature and depict young women getting brutally tortured, before being raped and murdered...
Millions of questions explode in her mind: why did Paul have such videos? Was he into a weird fetish or actually hiding a dark, brutal side of himself? Are the videos real? Or faked, being nothing more than graphic snuff porn? And one of those girls in the videos looks an awful lot like Anna Kilpatrick...
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!! Contains Examples Of
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler:Lydia Delgado with Paul Scott]] for the last third of the novel.
* ArcNumber: 03/04/1991; the date of Julia's disappearance.
* [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore British Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The novel's cover differs vastly from country to country. The US cover above shows Julia's necklace submerged in water, which gives off a very melancholic atmosphere. The [[http://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pretty-Girls-cover-670x1024.jpeg British cover]] is much less colorful and shows a girl's ripped picture with blood around it.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Sam Carroll started to visit Ben Carver on death row and spoke to him, because his daughter's police files reveal that he may have known something about Julia's disappearance.
* RewindReplayRepeat: Claire watches one of the torture videos and the masked man in it whispers something to the victim. She immediately turns the volume up, rewinds and replays the scene over and over, until she can hear what the man says. [[spoiler:"Tell me you want this." which is one of the two clues that the masked man is, indeed, Paul.]]
* TheSheriff: Sheriff Carl Huckabee is in charge of the Athens area and was the sheriff in charge of Julia's disappearance.
* SnuffFilm: The videos that Claire finds on Paul's computer.
