Most Popular Books by Gillian Flynn

''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. . .

"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.

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?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN HBO LIMITED SERIES From the acclaimed author of Gone Girl, “a riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off” (Chicago Tribune) “Sensuous and chilling . . . a propulsive and twisty mystery.”—Entertainment Weekly 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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. “The Grownup,” which originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world’s most original and skilled voices in fiction.

"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen King This exclusive ebook collection brings together the three novels from bestselling author Gillian Flynn. A #1 New York Times bestseller, Gone Girl is an unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that Flynn’s work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.” Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. 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. 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.

GONE GIRL - THE ADDICTIVE No.1 US BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police 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 weren''t made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick''s beautiful wife? SHARP OBJECTS - When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family''s mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims - a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming DARK PLACES - Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over 20 years on the proceeds of the ''Libby Day fund''. But now the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary gathering. The Kill Club is a group of true-crime obsessives who share information on notorious murders, and they think her brother Ben is innocent. Was Ben capable of murder? Libby must delve into her family''s past to uncover the truth - no matter how painful...

1:a åtta veckor i rad på New York Times bestsellerlista! »Gone Girl är baske mig ett mästerverk. Ska ni läsa en enda bok i år, välj den här. Årets bästa deckare, utan konkurrens.« LOTTA OLSSON, DN »En alldeles enastående bra thriller.« YUKIKO DUKE, GOMORRON SVERIGE, SVT »Gone Girl är en läsfest.« SVENSKA DAGBLADET »Det bästa jag läst i spänningsväg på många år.« JENS LILJESTRAND, EXPRESSEN »Sedan kommer vi kanske återigen att ha sex. Och en hamburgare sent på kvällen. Och ännu mer whisky. Voilà, det lyckligaste paret i kvarteret! Och så säger man att det ska vara så jobbigt att vara gift.« Nick och Amy Dunne är paret som har allt. De är charmiga, smarta och framgångsrika. Efter några hektiska år i New York slår de sig ner i en liten småstad i Missouri. Men den nya tillvaron blir inte som de tänkt sig och snart avlöser grälen varandra. På morgonen till deras femte bröllopsdag är Amy plötsligt försvunnen. I parets villa finns tydliga spår av våldsam strid. Misstankar faller snabbt på Nick, som bedyrar sin oskuld och gör vad han kan för att få polis och media på andra spår. Amys dagbok ger dock en bild av Nick som är allt annat än sympatisk. Men är han verkligen en mördare? Å andra sidan: Om han är oskyldig, var är Amy? # Över 9 miljoner sålda exemplar! # Nominerad till: Womens Prize for Fiction. # Årets bästa bok av Amazon och Barnes & Noble. # Årets mest recenserade bok på Good Reads, över 50.000 recensioner! # Översatt till 30 språk. »En superbt välskriven thriller.« JAN GRADVALL, DI WEEKEND »Gillian Flynn måste vara en av deckarvärldens skickligaste manipulatörer.« ULRIKA STAHRE, AFTONBLADET »Årets thriller.« THE GUARDIAN GILLIAN FLYNN är en av världens just nu mest hyllade kriminalförfattare, och hennes tredje roman Gone Girl hör till det senaste årets allra största succéer. Mörka platser, som kom på svenska 2012, fick även den lysande recensioner och utnämndes av Yukiko Duke i SVT:sGomorron Sverige till »Höstens absolut bästa deckare!« med betyget »en klar 5:a«. Gillian Flynn är bosatt i Chicago.

Cry Baby - Scharfe Schnitte: Ein erschütternder Psychothriller über die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele Camille Preakers Körper ist übersät mit Wörtern. Wörtern, die sie sich in die Haut geritzt hat. Das letzte Wort, das sie sich einritzte, hieß ›verschwinden‹. Danach stellte sie sich den Therapeuten, aber auch ihrer Vergangenheit. In ihrer alten Heimatstadt Wind Gap, einem verschlafenen Ort im Herzen Missouris, wurden zwei Teenager entführt und ermordet. Camille, die als Journalistin in Chicago arbeitet, soll den Fall für ihre Zeitung vor Ort recherchieren. Doch bei ihrer Rückkehr in die Kleinstadt, die von Schweinefarmen und tiefsitzenden Geheimnissen geprägt ist, findet sie mehr als nur eine Story. Sie stößt auf die Dämonen ihrer eigenen Kindheit - und die verbreiten nicht nur Angst und Schrecken, sondern töten auch. In Cry Baby - Scharfe Schnitte entführt die Bestsellerautorin Gillian Flynn ihre Leser in die dunklen Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche. Ein schockierender Thriller über die Schatten der Vergangenheit und die Bürde der Schuld - verstörend, packend und schonungslos ehrlich.

El llibre que s''ha convertit en un referent del thriller psicològic contemporani. En Nick i l''Amy són a ulls de tothom la parella ideal: intel·ligents, atractius i divertits, mantenen una relació que és l''enveja dels seus amics. Malgrat que tots dos són devots fervents de Nova York, quan amb la crisi perden la seva feina com a escriptors, es traslladen a North Carthage, per tenir cura dels pares d''en Nick, que estan molt malalts. El dia del cinquè aniversari de la parella, l''Amy ha preparat una recerca del tresor per a ell, com cada any. Però a mig matí, en Nick rep la trucada d''un veí al bar que regenta amb la seva germana: l''Amy ha desaparegut i el menjador es ple de senyals de lluita. Comença la investigació de la policia mentre que, en diversos indrets de la zona, segueixen ocultes les capses sorpresa de la recerca del tresor esperant ser obertes.