Marriage can be an actual killer.
Among the most significantly acclaimed suspense writers of our time, The big apple Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable work of art about a marital relationship gone terribly, awfully wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work "draws you in and remains you checking out with the force of a pure however nasty addiction." Gone Woman's hazardous mix of sharp-edged wit and pleasantly chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.
On a warm summer season morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's 5th wedding anniversary. When Nick's gorgeous and clever partner vanishes from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River, presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't really doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his partner's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist can have put anybody hazardously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media-- along with Amy's fiercely doting parents-- the town gold kid parades a limitless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's absolutely bitter-- but is he truly a killer?
As the cops close in, every couple around is soon wondering exactly how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sibling, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Problem is, if Nick didn't do it, where is that stunning partner? And exactly what was in that silvery present box concealed in the back of her bed room closet?
With her razor-sharp writing and hallmark psychological idea, Gillian Flynn provides a busy, devilishly dark, and ingeniously roughed out thriller that validates her status as one of the hottest authors around.

Amazon Finest Books of the Month, June 2012: On the day of their 5th wedding anniversary, Nick's other half Amy disappears. There are indicators of struggle in the home and Nick quickly ends up being the prime suspect. It does not assist that Nick hasn't been entirely honest with the cops and, as Amy's case drags on for weeks, a growing number of vilifying evidence appears versus him. Nick, however, maintains his innocence. Told from alternating points of view between Nick and Amy, Gillian Flynn develops an undependable world that alters chapter-to-chapter. Calling Gone Girl a psychological thriller is an understatement. As discovery after discovery unfolds, it ends up being clear that the fact does not exist in the middle of Nick and Amy's viewpoints; in reality, the fact is much more dark, more twisted, and more creepy than you can picture. Gone Girl is masterfully outlined from start to finish and the suspense does not waver for one page. Due to the fact that the ending does not just come; it punches you in the digestive tract, it's one of those books you will feel the need to go over instantly after completing.-- Caley Anderson
From Author Gillian Flynn

You may say I specialize in challenging characters. Harmed, disturbed, or downright nasty. Personally, I enjoy every one of the misfits, losers, and castaways in my three books. My supporting characters are meth tweakers, truck-stop strippers, backwoods grifters ...

But it's my narrators who are the actual difficulty.

In Sharp Objects, Camille Preaker is an average reporter fresh from a stay at a psychiatric healthcare facility. She's an alcoholic. She's got impulse problems. She's also exceptionally lonesome. Her finest friend is her manager. When she returns to her hometown to examine a child murder, she parks down the street from her mommy's home "so as to appear less noticeable." She has no sense of whom to trust, and this results in catastrophe.

Camille is cut off from the world however would rather not be. In Dark Places, storyteller Libby Day is boldy lonesome. She grows her isolation. When her family was massacred; she isn't specifically grateful for it, she lives off a trust fund established for her as a youngster. She's a liar, a manipulator, a kleptomaniac. "I have a meanness inside me, actual as a body organ," she warns. "Draw an image of my soul and it 'd be a scribble with fangs." Libby's first impulse is to kick them in their shins if Camille is extremely grateful when individuals desire to befriend her.

In those very first 2 stories, I discovered the location of loneliness-- and the destruction it can lead to. With Gone Woman, I desired to go the opposite direction: what takes place when two individuals link their lives entirely. I desired to explore the geography of intimacy-- and the devastation it can result in. Marital relationship gone hazardous.

Gone Girl opens on the occasion of Amy and Nick Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. (Exactly how romantic.) Amy vanishes under really troubling scenarios. (Less charming.) When they first began their courtship, Nick and Amy Dunne were the golden couple. True love. They can complete each other's sentences, think each other's reactions. They could push each other's buttons. They are wise, charming, stunning, and likewise narcissistic, selfish, and cruel.

They complete each other-- in an extremely dangerous method.