*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
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.
Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club--a secret society obsessed with
notorious crimes--locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to
discover proof that may free Ben.
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. 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.
Praise for Dark Places
"[A] nerve-fraying thriller."--The New York Times
"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
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"Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made
of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first
thriller. In Dark Places, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up,
Flynn . . . has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young
females. . . . [A] propulsive and twisty mystery."--Entertainment
Weekly*
"Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark
tale . . . The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the
present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. And when the truth
emerges, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it
coming."--People (4 stars)
"Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit." --Dallas Morning
News
"A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to
pull it off."**--Chicago Tribune
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"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] gripping thriller."--Cosmopolitan
"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling
storyteller with a knack for the macabre."--Stephen King
