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Type
Novel
ISBN
9780307341570

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307341577
ISBN-13
9780307341570
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72677844

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dark Places : a Novel
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Thrillers / Psychological, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Genre
Fiction
Author
Gillian Flynn
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
AWeekend TODAY"Top Summer Read" "[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 inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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 "In her first psychological thriller,Sharp Objects,Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day....It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for." -New York "[A] gripping thriller." -Cosmopolitan "DARK PLACES' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at firstshe's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of thembut her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. 'I have a meanness inside me,'she says, 'real as an organ.'Yes she does, and by the end of this pitch-black novel, after we've loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we're glad Flynn decided to share it." Jessa Crispin, NPR.org "Flynn returns to the front ranks of emerging thriller writers with her aptly titled new novel . . . Those who prefer their literary bones with a little bloody meat will be riveted." -Portland Oregonian "Gillian Flynn may turn out to be a more gothic John Irving for the 21st century, a writer who uses both a surgeon's scalpel and a set of rusty harrow discs to rip the pretty face off middle America." -San Jose Mercury News "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every sentence. . . . The slick plotting in DARK PLACES will gratify the lover of a good thrillerbut so, too, will Flynn's prose, which is ferocious and unrelenting and pure pleasure from word one." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "Gillian Flynn's second novel, DARK PLACES,proves that her first Sharp Objects was no fluke. . . . tough, surprising crime fiction that dips its toes in the deeper waters of literary fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times "Flynn fully inhabits Libby-a damaged woman whose world has resided entirely in her own head for the majority of her life and who, Named one of the Best Books of 2009 byPublishers Weekly AWeekend TODAY"Top Summer Read" "[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 inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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 "In her first psychological thriller,Sharp Objects,Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day....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 "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "DARK PLACES' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at firstshe's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of thembut her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. 'I have a meanness inside me,'she says, 'real as an organ.'Yes she does, and by the end of this pitch-black novel, after we've loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we're glad Flynn decided to share it." Jessa Crispin, NPR.org "Flynn returns to the front ranks of emerging thriller writers with her aptly titled new novel . . . Those who prefer their literary bones with a little bloody meat will be riveted." -Portland Oregonian "Gillian Flynn may turn out to be a more gothic John Irving for the 21st century, a writer who uses both a surgeon's scalpel and a set of rusty harrow discs to rip the pretty face off middle America." -San Jose Mercury News "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every sentence. . . . The slick plotting in DARK PLACES will gratify the lover of a good thrillerbut so, too, will Flynn's prose, which is feroci, Named one of the Best Books of 2009 byPublishers Weekly AWeekend TODAY"Top Summer Read" The New Yorker's Reviewers' Favorite from 2009 A 2009 Favorite Fiction Pick byThe Chicago Tribune "[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 inSharp 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 creepySharp Objectswith 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 "In her first psychological thriller,Sharp Objects,Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty (the heroine carves words into her own flesh) written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day....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 "Another winner!" Harlan Coben "Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." Kate Atkinson "Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go." Karin Slaughter "With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke." Val McDermid "DARK PLACES' Libby Day may seem unpleasant company at firstshe's humoring those with morbid curiosities about her family's murders in order to get money out of thembut her steely nature and sharp tongue are compelling. 'I have a meanness inside me,'she says, 'real as an organ.'Yes she does, and by the end of this pitch-black novel, after we've loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we're glad Flynn decided to share it." Jessa Crispin, NPR.org "Flynn returns to the front ranks of emerging thriller writers with her aptly titled new novel . . . Those who prefer their literary bones with a little bloody meat will be riveted." -Portland Oregonian "Gillian Flynn may turn out to be a more gothic John Irving for the 21st century, a writer who uses both a surgeon's scalpel and a set of rusty harrow discs to rip the pretty face off middle America." -San Jose Mercury News "The world of this novel is all underside, all hard flinch, and Flynn's razor-sharp prose intensifies this effect as she knuckles in on every s
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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 - 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 - 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

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  • by cdwildlife69
    27 Nov, 2016Most favourable review

    Took three days

    Pretty well written. Ending was fair. I mean the author didn't cheat. Would I recommend reading it? Depends. I read two books a week. Gets hard to find new ones. For me it was okay. Not great not terrible.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: shakespearenlawyer

  • by sweet_asylum
    27 Apr, 2019

    This book lives up to its title. it's Dark for sure. Could. Not. Put. It. Down.

    Dark Places Review This book lives up to being Dark. It was a real page turner. I read it in 2 sittings. Could. Not. Put. It. Down. I tried to be as vague as possible to not create any spoilers, but be warned, there could be spoilers! While written very concisely, like a Hemingway short story, there were two dream sequences that were out of place. They had nothing to do with the rest of the book and added nothing to the story. Then again, some of Hemingway's short stories have interludes like that. The ending, while a surprise, had most of its aspects inferred to earlier in the book. The Jolly Rancher incident with Ben and Krissi was cringe-worthy, so much so, that had I considered not finishing the book. By this point I was hooked though. What was the "Devil Rush" drug? PCP? bath ...

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  • by mwohara8drn
    28 May, 2024

    Thank you very much! Excellent item!

    Thank you very much! Excellent item!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: oriontechllc

  • by kypa_56
    25 Jan, 2022

    Exactly what ordered

    Everything was exactly how I expected it to be, it even came in earlier then expected. Thanks so much!!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: your_online_bookstore

  • by chafftalen
    26 Aug, 2019

    Great!

    I’m reading it now and it keeps you on your toes. I love it so far.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: discover-books

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