Broadway Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b>THE #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br><br></b>On a warm summer morning in North Carthage Missouri it is Nick and Amy Dunnes fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nicks clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isnt doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wifes head but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge<b>.</b>?Under mounting pressure from the police and the mediaas well as Amys fiercely doting parentsthe town golden boy parades an endless series of lies deceits and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive and hes definitely bitterbut is he really a killer??</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><p><strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month June 2012</strong>: On the day of their fifth wedding anniversary Nick's wife Amy disappears. There are signs of struggle in the house and Nick quickly becomes the prime suspect. It doesn't help that Nick hasn't been completely honest with the poli"e and?? as Amy's case drags out for weeks?? more and more vilifying evidence appears against him. Nick?? however?? maintains his innocence. Told from alternating points of view between Nick and Amy?? Gillian Flynn creates an untrustworthy world that changes chapter-to-chapter. Calling <em>Gone Girl</em> a psychological thriller is an understatement. As revelation after revelation unfolds?? it becomes clear that the truth does not exist in the middle of Nick and Amy's points of view; in fact?? the truth is far more dark?? more twisted?? and more creepy than you can imagine. <em>Gone Girl</em> is masterfully plotted from start to finish and the suspense doesn't waver for one page. It's one of those books you will feel the need to discuss immediately after finishing because the ending doesn't just come; it punches you in the gut. <em>--Caley Anderson</em></p> <div class="p>From Author Gillian Flynn</p> <p>You might say I specialize in difficult characters. Damaged?? disturbed?? or downright nasty. Personally?? I love each and every one of the misfits?? losers?? and outcasts in my three novels. My supporting characters are meth tweakers?? truck-stop strippers?? backwoods grifters ...</p> <p>But it's my narrators who are the real challenge.</p> <p>In <em>Sharp Objects??</em> Camille Preaker is a mediocre journalist fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital. She's an alcoholic. She's got impulse issues. She's also incredibly lonely. Her best friend is her boss. When she returns to her hometown to investigate a child murder?? she parks down the street from her mother's house "seem less obtrusive." She has no sense of whom to trust?? and this leads to disaster.</p> <p>Camille is cut off from the world but would rather not be. In <em>Dark Places??</em> narrator Libby Day is aggressively lonely. She cultivates her isolation. She lives off a trust fund established for her as a child when her family was massacred; she isn't particularly grateful for it. She's a liar?? a manipulator?? a kleptomaniac. "ve a meanness inside me?? real as an organ??"he warns. "Draw a picture of my soul and it'd be a scribble with fangs." If Camille is overly grateful when people want to befriend her?? Libby's first instinct is to kick them in their shins.</p> <p>In those first two novels?? I explored the geography of loneliness--and the