Pretty, Nasty, Lovely

by Rosalind Noonan

Overview

Sisterhood has a price . . .

Pledging to Theta Pi at Merriwether University seemed to offer Emma Danelski a passport to friendship, fun, and popularity. But the excitement of pledge training quickly fades, as does the warmth of her so-called sisters. What's left is a stifling society filled with petty rules, bullying, and manipulation. Most haunting are the choices Emma makes in the wake of another sorority sister's suicide . . .

It doesn't matter that no one else needs to know what Emma did, or how vastly different life at Theta House is from the glossy image it projects. Emma knows. And now, with her loyalties tested, she must decide which secrets are worth keeping and how far she'll go to protect them-and herself . . .

Praise for Rosalind Noonan's Domestic Secrets

"This suspenseful read is Noonan at her best. Fans will be eager to get their hands on her latest, and it doesn't disappoint." -Booklist

"Noonan delivers another page-turning thriller whose deeply flawed characters draw you into a web of family secrets." -Kirkus Reviews

"Recommended for readers wanting stories of dysfunctional families, scandal, and violence that involve entire communities." -Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496708021
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	08/29/2017
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Rosalind Noonan is a New York Times bestselling fiction author and graduate of Wagner College. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she writes in the shade of some towering two-hundred-year-old Douglas fir trees.

Editorial Reviews

09/25/2017
Studious, driven Emma Danelski, the moral center of this unconvincing psychological thriller from Noonan (Domestic Secrets), has pledged Theta Pi sorority at Oregon’s Merriwether University largely to fill the void left by the deaths of her sister and mother in a car accident years earlier. Aside from Emma’s quirky suitemates—clearly made up of the Theta Pi outcast pile—the rest of the house could have been lifted from any novel or film featuring college life. When Lydia Drakos, a Greek tycoon’s granddaughter who belongs to Theta Pi, is found dead in a ravine below one of Merriwether’s numerous but treacherous bridges, everyone assumes she jumped. Over the past two years there have been 12 suicides on campus. But conflicting evidence soon mounts in Lydia’s case: another person was seen on the bridge, and Lydia, though depressed, wasn’t necessarily suicidal. Two high-level administrators, rather robotic Sydney Cho and overly passionate Scott Finnegan, are at odds as to how to address the school’s suicide problem. Emma, who knows more than the police do about what really went on in the Theta Pi house, must decide what, if anything, to do with this knowledge. Unfortunately, Emma isn’t developed enough to gain much reader sympathy. Mystery fans will find little that they haven’t already seen before. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly