Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes is a kindle short story by popular American author, Karin Slaughter. It details the events of a fateful spring day in the life of nineteen-year-old Julia Carroll, an attractive (blonde hair, blue eyes) student of journalism at University of Georgia, Athens. Her attention has been caught by the report of a college student, also nineteen, also blonde-haired, blue-eyed, now missing for five weeks: Julia may be a features writer for the UGA campus newspaper, but she wants to write a news story drawing attention to this possible abduction, and others like it.
This short story allows the reader to get to know a character who is conspicuous by her absence in Slaughter’s latest book, Pretty Girls, and witness some of the family dynamics before tragedy struck. The events of this story dovetail neatly with those related in Pretty Girls, and enhance that reading experience. It can be read as a stand-alone (without spoilers) before or after Pretty Girls, and is the perfect complement to that book. Excellent!