New Releases by Gillian Flynn

"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen King This collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings together the first two novels of Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl. In Sharp Objects, Flynn’s debut novel, a young journalist returns home to cover a dark assignment—and to face her own damaged family history. With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable. Flynn’s second novel, Dark Places, is an intricately orchestrated thriller that ravages a family''s past to unearth the truth behind a horrifying crime. A New York Times bestseller and Weekend Today Top Summer Read, Dark Places solidified Flynn’s status as one of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time.

Camille Preaker arbeider som journalist i Chicago. Hun har nettopp hatt et lengre opphold på en psykiatrisk klinikk, og hun ønsker å legge barndommen bak seg. Men så blir to unge jenter funnet drept i hjembyen hennes, og Camille sendes tilbake for å dekke tragedien. Snart avdekker Camille nye spor i jakten på dobbeltmorderen, men hvorfor identifiserer hun seg så sterkt med de døde jentene? Det viser seg at hun må gjenåpne gamle sår for å komme videre, og ikke minst for å overleve ... Åpne sår er en mørk og åndeløst spennende reise inn under huden på Camille Preaker og hennes svært dysfunksjonelle familie. Romanen regnes som en av de sterkeste krimdebutene i USA, og fikk både en Edgar-nominasjon og to Dagger-priser.

''What are you thinking, Amy? The question I''ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?'' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy''s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn''t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren''t his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick''s beautiful wife? And what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war. . .

Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron asesinadas en el “Sacrificio Satánico de Kinnakee, Kansas.” Mientras su familia agonizaba, la pequeña Libby escapó de la granja a través de la helada nieve de enero. Sobrevivió, y presionada por los medios, declaró que su hermano Ben, de quince años, había cometido el crimen. Veinticinco años más tarde Libby, que se esfuerza por olvidar lo sucedido, vive de los últimos centavos que restan de donaciones de almas caritativas que ahora ya han olvidado su caso. Es entonces cuando una llamada del Kill Club, una sociedad obsesionada por crímenes famosos, despierta el terrible pasado de Libby, presionándola para que descubra la verdad sobre los asesinatos. Ella, que ve en ello una oportunidad para ganar dinero, retoma el contacto con todos aquellos que tuvieron algo que ver con aquella fatídica noche.

Een jonge vrouw komt erachter dat haar broer, die zij als kind aanwees als moordenaar van haar moeder en twee zusjes, niet de werkelijke dader is.

When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described ''white trash from old money'', is the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family''s Victorian mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows, a precocious 13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town and surrounds herself with a group of vampish teenage girls. As Camille struggles to remain detached from the evidence, her relationship with her neurotic, hypochondriac mother threatens to topple her hard-won mental stability. Working alongside the police chief and a special agent from out of town, Camille tries to uncover the mystery of who killed these little girls and why. But there are deeper psychological puzzles: Why does Camille identify so strongly with the dead girls? And how is this connected to the death of another sister years earlier?

Een journaliste, ooit weggelopen bij haar neurotische moeder, keert na jaren terug naar haar geboortedorp om over de moord op twee meisjes te schrijven.