The sole survivor of a family massacre is pushed into revisiting a
past she'd much rather leave alone, in Flynn's scorching follow-up
to Sharp Objects (2006).On a January night in 1985, Michelle Day,
ten, was strangled, her nine-year-old sister, Debby, killed with an
ax, and their mother, Patty, stabbed, hacked and shot to death in
the family farmhouse. Weeks after jumping out a window and running
off in the Kansas snow, Libby Day, seven, testified that her
brother Ben, 15, had killed the family, and he was sent to prison
for life amid accusations of sex and Satanism. End of story -
except that now that the fund well-wishers raised for Libby has run
dry, she has to raise some cash pronto, and her family history
turns once more into an ATM. A letter from Lyle Wirth promises her
a quick $500 to attend the annual convention of the Kill Club,
whose members gather to trade theories about unsolved crimes. When
self-loathing Libby ("Draw a picture of my soul, it'd be a scribble
with fangs") realizes that none of the club members believes her
story, she reluctantly agrees to earn some more cash by digging up
the leading players: Ben, whose letters she's never opened; their
long-departed father Runner, who's as greedy and unscrupulous as
Libby; Krissi Cates, the little girl who'd spent the day before the
murders accusing Ben of molesting her; and Ben's rich, sleazy
girlfriend Diondra Wertzner. Flynn intercuts Libby's venomous
detective work with flashbacks to the fatal day 24 years ago so
expertly that as they both hurtle toward unspeakable revelations,
you won't know which one you're more impatient to finish. Only the
climax, which is incredible in both good ways and bad, is a
letdown.For most of the wild story's running time, however, every
sentence crackles with enough baleful energy to fuel a whole town
through the coldest Kansas winter. (Kirkus Reviews)
THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'Eerily macabre... Wonderful' Guardian
'A nerve-fraying thriller' New York Times 'Every bit as horribly
fascinating as In Cold Blood' Daily Mail Libby Day was seven when
her family was murdered: she survived by hiding in a closet - and
famously testified that her older brother Ben was the killer.
Twenty-five years later the Kill Club - a secret society obsessed
with notorious crimes - gets in touch with Libby to try to discover
proof that may free Ben. Almost broke, Libby agrees to go back to
her hometown to investigate - for a fee. But when Libby's search
uncovers an unimaginable truth, she finds herself right back where
she started: on the run from a killer. THE ORIGINAL #1 BESTSELLER,
BY THE AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL 'I would rather read her than just about
any other crime writer' Kate Atkinson 'Gillian Flynn is the real
deal: a sharp, acerbic and compelling storyteller' Stephen King 'An
extraordinarily good writer' Observer
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Gripping
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 | Review
by: Melissa B.
Juts like Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn doesn't fail to disappoint. This book is gripping and will keep you transfixed until the very last page.
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