' Dark Places' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at first-she's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of them-but her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke.' -Val McDermid 'With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. ' Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go.' -Karin Slaughter I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer.' -Kate Atkinson 'Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. The New Yorker's Reviewers' Favorite from 2009Ī 2009 Favorite Fiction Pick by The Chicago Tribune Named one of the Best Books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly 'Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.' -Stephen King

'It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.' - New York Magazine 'A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.' - Chicago Tribune 'Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.' -Dallas Morning News

And when the truth emerges, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.' - People (4 stars) The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. 'Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark tale. propulsive and twisty mystery.' - Entertainment Weekly has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. In Dark Places, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn. 'Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. 'Flynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.' - The New Yorker ' nerve-fraying thriller.' - The New York Times

As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in 'The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.' She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron

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