Nice Girls by Catherine Dang

After being expelled from an elite university, a sharp-tongued young woman returns to her Minnesota hometown and becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a beautiful local celebrity. As she digs into the case—and a second, largely ignored missing person—she confronts the town’s hypocrisies around class, race, and who is deemed worth saving. Her investigation forces her to reckon with her own past and unreliable instincts, spiraling into a tense, twisty search where ambition, envy, and female rage collide.

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