49 pages 1 hour read

Karin Slaughter

Pretty Girls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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Chapters 12-16Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 12 Summary

Claire wakes up confused about how Paul is still alive. Her burner phone is missing and her purse has been rooted through. The phone rings, and Paul explains that he kidnapped Lydia and there are cameras all over the house so he has a constant visual on Claire. Paul confirms that his father killed Julia. He admits that he found the snuff ring but claims he is just a distributor. Claire hears background noise on the phone and assumes he is driving on the highway with Lydia zip-tied in the trunk.

Claire hears a car pull into the driveway and sees Sheriff Carl Huckabee approaching the Fuller house. On the phone, Paul orders her to get rid of him or she won’t see Lydia again. Upon questioning, Huckabee tells Claire he always knew what happened to Julia, and so did Helen, but she made him promise he wouldn’t tell the girls. The moment he found out the truth was when he found Sam’s body, with the snuff tape playing on the TV in the background. Huckabee turned the tapes over to the FBI via congressman Johnny Jackson, and a man named Darryl Lassiter was consequently pinned for the murders.