Dark Places

Zusatztext 90528059 Informationen zum Autor Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl , and the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects . A former writer and critic for Entertainment Weekly , she lives in Chicago with her husband and son. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl! and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron 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. 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. Praise for Dark Places "[A] nerve-fraying thriller."-The New York Times "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 "Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in Sharp Objects! her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In Dark Places! 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."-Entertainment Weekly "Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects 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."-People (4 stars) "Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit." -Dallas Morning News "A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off."-Chicago Tribune "It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic! self-loathing! unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for."-New York Magazine "[A] gripping thriller."-Cosmopolitan "Gillian Flynn is the real deal! a sharp! acerbic! and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre."-Stephen King Libby Day Now I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. It’s the Day blood. Something’s wrong with it. I was never a good little girl, and I got worse after the murders. Little Orphan Libby grew up sullen and boneless, shuffled around a group of lesser relatives—second cousins and great-aunts and friends of friends—stuck in a series of mobile homes or rotting ranch houses all across Kansas. Me going to school in my dead sisters’ hand-me-downs: Shirts with mustardy armpits. Pants with baggy bottoms, comically loose, held on with a raggedy belt cinched to the farthest hole. In class photos my hair was always crooked—barrettes hanging loosely from strands, as if they were airborne objects caught in the tangles—and I always had bulging pockets under my eyes, drunk-landlady eyes. Maybe a grudging curve of the lips where a smile should be. Maybe. I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. It was miserable, wet-bone March and I was lying in bed thinking about killing myself, a hobby of mine. Indulgent afternoon daydreaming: A shotgun, my mou...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gillian Flynn
• Verlag: Crown Publishing Group
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.05.2010
• EAN: 9780307341570
• ISBN: 978-0-307-34157-0
• Seiten: 368
• Abmessung: 132 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Three Rivers Press
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung