

This story starts when the girls were in sixth grade and on of their best friends, Ali, was tragically murdered. The protagonists of this story are Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily. In the fallout, when everyone is safe, the girls realize that someone has joined them: Ali.Book review by Bryn, posted by CA Library:"Killer by Sara Shepard is the sixth book in the Pretty Little Liars series. Once Ian confirms this over the computer, though, someone tries to set fire to the woods and the girls. On the night of the gallery opening, everything comes to a head, and the girls realize separately various elements that together lead them to realize that a police officer, Officer Wilden and Jason must have murdered Ali together. After calling Olivia's realtor, though, Spencer discovers that the whole thing was a hoax, and that all of her college money has been taken. She is preoccupied with Olivia, her birth mother, whom she met in New York, and who wants her to move there too. At the same time, Spencer, using her sister's computer, gets messages from Ian, confirming that he is still alive. At first, he refuses to believe her, but later confronts his mother and finds out Emily was telling the truth. Meanwhile, Emily's romance with Isaac is tested when they have sex and his mother possibly overhears them, and later threatens Emily. He bolts, however, when Aria invites him to a gallery opening at a former home for disturbed boys, which is now a hotel.

Finally, Spencer's parents have been very cold to her, and she has come to believe that she is adopted, finally tracking her birth mother down to a woman in New York City, who wants to meet her.Īria also begins a romance with Ali's brother, Jason, who is strange but handsome. Meanwhile, Hanna's stepsister Kate is trying to take over her life, and they both compete for the same boy, Mike (Aria's younger brother). Emily is bisexual and dating a boy, whose mother has it in for her. Aria has moved in with her father and his young, pregnant girlfriend, after her mother's boyfriend started to harass her. Meanwhile, each girl has her own personal issues to deal with, while they continue to get harassing texts and emails from "A," an anonymous source. However, they return to find the body has disappeared. After Ali's death, in the present day, the girls think that they've seen the body of Ian, the wrongfully-accused suspect in the murder, in the woods. However, they find out that it has already been stolen. The narrative begins with a collective memory of the day that all five girls met, when four of them (Emily, Hanna, Spencer, and Aria) try to steal Ali's piece of a school flag. "Pretty Little Liars: Killer" is the story of a group of teenagers who are forced to solve the mystery behind their friend Ali's death.
