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
