Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American writer, film writer, comic book writer and previous television critic for Entertainment Weekly.Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri to two community-college professors—her mother taught reading; her father, film. As a result she spent an excessive amount of her childhood nosing through books and watching movies.
Flynn’s 2006 very first novel, the fictional mystery Sharp Objects, was an Edgar Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain’s Dagger Awards—the first book ever to win multiple Daggers in one year. Movie rights have been sold.
Flynn’s second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller Dark Places, was a New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite, Weekend TODAY Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction choice. Movie rights have been sold, with Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) to direct.
Flynn’s third novel, GONE GIRL has become a household name now especially after the release of the hit movie in Oct. Probley one of the best written and best thrillers written in the last 5 years Gone girl has gone on to enormous success making Flynn one of the top writer's of this decade.
Sharp Objects
Clean from a short stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker confronts a scary assignment: she must go back to her small home town to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has barely talked to her neurotic, hypochondriac mom or to the half-sister she scarcely knows a stunning thirteen-year-old with an spooky grip on the town. Now, set up in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille discovers herself identifying with the youthful victims,a bit too powerfully. Dogged by her own demons, she must uncover the psychological dilemma of her own past if she wants to get the story,and make it through this homecoming.
You will surely be drawn into this dark mystery/thriller
I adore a great psychological thriller with disturbingly defective characters and this book did not let you down. The main character is a lady battling to make a life for herself, fleeing her childhood and really, fleeing her mom when she is directed back to her home town as an investigative reporter. She is assigned to report on the grotesque murders of two pre-teen girls, but in the procedure she gets put right back in the middle of her screwed up family characteristics, her small town's social design, and a potential romance..
Dark Places
Li
bby Day was seven when her mom and two sisters were killed in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and notoriously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years afterwards, the Kill Club—a secret society preoccupied with notorious crimes,locates Libby and squeezes her for specifics. They hope to uncover proof that may free Ben. Libby wants to turn a profit off her tragic history. She’ll reconcile with the players from that night and report her findings to the club,for a fee. As Libby’s research takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to deserted Oklahoma tourist towns, the incomprehensible truth comes forth, and Libby finds herself right back where she started,on the run from a killer.
Really loved this book. Very dark and with more twists than a cork screw. I think part of its attraction to me is the environment. Being from Missouri I could identify some of the places in the book. It's great to see a book written by a woman who comprehends women and has no fear in putting them in gritty settings
Gone Girl.
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
I read all three, I started with Sharp Objects, and I loved the writing. Usually like 90% of the time, I figure the ending in the first third of the book. Not with this author, after reading the first book, she had me sucked in and I had to read the other two as soon and as fast as I could. Not only has the author have a way with words, she can twist the plot 360 degrees, and you are shaking your head with your mouth open wondering how did I miss that! A few chapters down the road she twists it around again, and by the ending of the book, you are still shaking your head with the mouth wide open, going back and rereading chapters. Nope I didn't miss something, she just is that GOOD.
The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects
Flynn’s 2006 very first novel, the fictional mystery Sharp Objects, was an Edgar Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain’s Dagger Awards—the first book ever to win multiple Daggers in one year. Movie rights have been sold.
Flynn’s second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller Dark Places, was a New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite, Weekend TODAY Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction choice. Movie rights have been sold, with Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) to direct.
Flynn’s third novel, GONE GIRL has become a household name now especially after the release of the hit movie in Oct. Probley one of the best written and best thrillers written in the last 5 years Gone girl has gone on to enormous success making Flynn one of the top writer's of this decade.
Sharp Objects
Clean from a short stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker confronts a scary assignment: she must go back to her small home town to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has barely talked to her neurotic, hypochondriac mom or to the half-sister she scarcely knows a stunning thirteen-year-old with an spooky grip on the town. Now, set up in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille discovers herself identifying with the youthful victims,a bit too powerfully. Dogged by her own demons, she must uncover the psychological dilemma of her own past if she wants to get the story,and make it through this homecoming.
You will surely be drawn into this dark mystery/thriller
I adore a great psychological thriller with disturbingly defective characters and this book did not let you down. The main character is a lady battling to make a life for herself, fleeing her childhood and really, fleeing her mom when she is directed back to her home town as an investigative reporter. She is assigned to report on the grotesque murders of two pre-teen girls, but in the procedure she gets put right back in the middle of her screwed up family characteristics, her small town's social design, and a potential romance..
Dark Places
Li
bby Day was seven when her mom and two sisters were killed in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and notoriously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years afterwards, the Kill Club—a secret society preoccupied with notorious crimes,locates Libby and squeezes her for specifics. They hope to uncover proof that may free Ben. Libby wants to turn a profit off her tragic history. She’ll reconcile with the players from that night and report her findings to the club,for a fee. As Libby’s research takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to deserted Oklahoma tourist towns, the incomprehensible truth comes forth, and Libby finds herself right back where she started,on the run from a killer.Really loved this book. Very dark and with more twists than a cork screw. I think part of its attraction to me is the environment. Being from Missouri I could identify some of the places in the book. It's great to see a book written by a woman who comprehends women and has no fear in putting them in gritty settings
Gone Girl.
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
I read all three, I started with Sharp Objects, and I loved the writing. Usually like 90% of the time, I figure the ending in the first third of the book. Not with this author, after reading the first book, she had me sucked in and I had to read the other two as soon and as fast as I could. Not only has the author have a way with words, she can twist the plot 360 degrees, and you are shaking your head with your mouth open wondering how did I miss that! A few chapters down the road she twists it around again, and by the ending of the book, you are still shaking your head with the mouth wide open, going back and rereading chapters. Nope I didn't miss something, she just is that GOOD.
The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects
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