“With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. 'Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go.' “Gillian Flynn’s writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer.” 'Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.' The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day.It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.' 'In her first psychological thriller, Sharp Objects, Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. “A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.” “Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.” And when the truth emerges, it’s so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.”

The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. “Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects with another dark tale. In DARK PLACES, her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn…has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females…. “Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. “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's Reviewers' Favorite from 2009Ī 2009 Favorite Fiction Pick by The Chicago Tribune Named one of the Best Books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly

Dark places by gillian flynn