Dark Places

GILLIAN FLYNN is the author of the #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller GONE GIRL, for which she wrote the Golden Globe-nominated screenplay, and the SUNDAY TIMES bestsellers DARK PLACES and SHARP OBJECTS. A former critic for ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away...the gripping second novel from the author of the mega-bestselling GONE GIRL.

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 macabreGillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writerWith her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no flukeDark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let goFlynn'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.This is only Flynn's second crime novel . . . and demonstrates even more forcibly her precocious writing ability and talent for the macabreDark Places, Flynn's second novel, confirms her exceptional talentGutsy, atmospheric and suspense-loadedFlynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.Gutsy thriller of one woman pitted against her murderous brother.In a brilliantly interwoven plot, Gillian Flynn keeps the reader balanced on a knife-edgeGillian 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.

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