“Darkly delicious . . .
Nice Girls
is 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 you’re a total true crime addict, Catherine Dang’s debut novel will have you hooked
real
fast." —
Cosmopolitan
Recommended by
New York Times Book Review
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Entertainment Weekly
Los Angeles Times
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New York Post
E! Online
Bustle
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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 woman—showing 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, Minnesota—the quiet, chubby teen with the scholarship to an Ivy League school. But three years later, “Ivy League Mary” is back—a thinner, cynical, restless failure who was kicked out of Cor­nell at the beginning of her senior year and won’t tell anyone why. Taking a job at the local grocery store, Mary tries to make sense of her life’s sharp downward spiral.
Then beautiful, magnetic Olivia Willand goes missing. A rising social media star, Olivia is admired by everyone in Liberty Lake—except Mary. Once Olivia’s 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 of
Pretty Little Wife
“
finds itself among the most haunting of mysteries, those that resonate with our current affairs, like Alyssa Cole’s
When No One Is Watching
and Rumaan Alam’s
Leave the World Behind.
Perfect for the millennial armchair detective,
will satisfy your true crime addiction and intensify your desire for justice.”— Paperback Paris