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THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON
'Eerily macabre... Wonderful' Guardian
'A nerve-fraying thriller' New York Times
'Every bit as horribly fascinating as In Cold Blood' Daily Mail
Libby Day was seven when her family was murdered: she survived by hiding in a closet - and famously testified that her older brother Ben was the killer.
Twenty-five years later the Kill Club - a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes - gets in touch with Libby to try to discover proof that may free Ben. Almost broke, Libby agrees to go back to her hometown to investigate - for a fee.
But when Libby's search uncovers an unimaginable truth, she finds herself right back where she started: on the run from a killer.
THE ORIGINAL #1 BESTSELLER, BY THE AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
'I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer' Kate Atkinson
'Gillian Flynn is the real deal: a sharp, acerbic and compelling storyteller' Stephen King
'An extraordinarily good writer' Observer
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780753827031
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 312 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 32 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
A NEW YORKER 'REVIEWERS' FAVORITE'A WEEKEND TODAY 'TOP SUMMER READ'CHICAGO TRIBUNE 'BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR'
Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre - Stephen King
Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer - Kate Atkinson
With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke - Val McDermid
Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go - Karin Slaughter
Flynn's second novel is a wonderful evocation of drab small-town life. The time-split narrative works superbly and the atmosphere is eerily macabre-Dark Places is even better than the author's award-winning Sharp Objects. - Guardian
This is only Flynn's second crime novel . . . and demonstrates even more forcibly her precocious writing ability and talent for the macabre - Daily Mail
Dark Places, Flynn's second novel, confirms her exceptional talent - Times Literary Supplement
Gutsy, atmospheric and suspense-loaded - Woman & Home
Flynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma. - New Yorker
Gutsy thriller of one woman pitted against her murderous brother. - WOMAN & HOME
In a brilliantly interwoven plot, Gillian Flynn keeps the reader balanced on a knife-edge - TANGLED WEB
Gillian Flynn is a great writer, equally able to ratchet up the suspense as creaet memorable characters and pervasive moods. This is a great and original piece of rural noir. - CATHOLIC HERALD
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