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In 1978, the president of a Florida sorority survives a night of violence that kills two of her sisters and sets out, with the grieving partner of another victim, to pursue the truth.
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Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Bright Young Women
A Novel
JK
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Published by
Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Jessica Knoll takes one of the most mythologized killers in American history and pointedly refuses to name or glamorize him, handing the story instead to the women he targeted.
Narrated largely by the level-headed president of a Florida sorority that survives a lethal night in 1978, Bright Young Women reconstructs the crimes and their aftermath as a story of intelligent, ambitious young women - and of a culture that lavished fascination on their murderer while forgetting them.
Knoll writes with cold precision and simmering anger, turning the true-crime template inside out to expose how female victims are flattened into footnotes. It works as a tense, propulsive thriller and as a pointed cultural argument, the two never at odds.
For readers weary of serial-killer worship, it is a bracing corrective - a novel that grants its bright young women the interiority and agency the historical record denied them, without ever losing narrative grip.
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Pages
384
Published
2023
Simon & Schuster
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Hardcover
US first edition
Language
English
Mystery, Crime & Thriller
ISBN
978-1501153228
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