January 1978. Tallahassee. When sorority president Pamela Schumacher is startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she's shocked to encounter a scene of implausible violence - two of her friends dead and two others, maimed
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Jessica Knoll
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Luckiest Girl Alive is a 2015 mystery novel written by American author Jessica Knoll, and is her debut work. It was first published on May 12, 2015 by Simon & Schuster in the United States and Pan Macmillan in Australia, written in the first-person narrative. The paperback version of the book was released in April 2016; it became a New York Times best seller.
Bright Young Women
by Jessica Knoll
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