Dark Places

Dark Places

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Gone Girl</i>, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron<i><br></i></b><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Dark Places</i></b><br><br>“[A] nerve-fraying thriller.”<b>—<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>“Flynn’s well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.”<b>—</b><i><b>The New Yorker</b><br></i><br>“Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in <i>Sharp Objects</i>, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In <i>Dark Places</i>, 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.”<b>—<i>Entertainment Weekly<br><br></i></b>“Flynn follows her deliciously creepy <i>Sharp Objects</i> 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.”<b>—<i>People</i> (4 stars)</b><br><br>“Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.” <b>—Dallas Morning News</b><br><br>“A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.”<b>—</b><i><b>Chicago Tribune</b><br></i><br>"It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.”<b>—<i>New York Magazine</i><br><br></b>“[A] gripping thriller.”—<b><i>Cosmopolitan<br><br></i></b>"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.”<b>—Stephen King</b>