Her three published novels are the thrillers: Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl.įlynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Gillian Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, comic book writer, and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Education-B.A., University of Kansas M.A., Northwest University.Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby’s doomed family members-including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town.
For a fee, she’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club.and maybe she’ll admit her testimony wasn’t so solid after all.Īs Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. When they locate Libby and pump her for details-proof they hope may free Ben-Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes.
Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who’ve long forgotten her. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. Piece by piece, Elliott and Rhodes begin to delve into the distorted mind of a killer, one who has hunted in the dark, undiscovered for years, one who is starting to seem just a little too close to home.I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Can she convince the reluctant detective to put their differences aside to catch a murderer?
Madison Brooke, an overly confident crime reporter whose history with Surin is no secret, will stop at nothing in pursuit of the perfect headline. Surin likes to work alone and to be alone.ĭetective Parker Rhodes is the complete opposite - light where she is dark, calm where she is wild - and as they tentatively navigate their new partnership, Surin lets her guard down enough to bring Parker in on her investigation. The last thing she needs is a new partner, not now, not when she is on the brink of something big. Girls that have been abducted and murdered, girls that no one else seems to see. Baltimore detective, Surin Elliott, is building a case.
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