Dark Places: A Novel Paperback – May 4, 2010
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Dark Places A Novel other formats May 4 Dark Places A Novel by Gillian Flynn Paperback 8 40 1 Reprint edition May 4 2010 Language English Gillian Flynn s second novel DARK PLACES proves that her first Thu May 06 00 00 00 EDT 2010 I like my crime fiction dark and ugly and Dark Places Gillian Author May 04 2010 Paperback Gillian Flynn Dark Places A Novel Audible Download Audio Books Dark Places A Novel Audio Download May 4 2010 Publisher Crown Publishing Group Imprint Broadway Books ISBN 9780307341570 Subscribe to the Random House Mystery Newsletter Your Dark Places A Novel Trade Paperback 368 pages On Sale May 4 2010 Price
- Paperback: 349 pages
- Publisher: Broadway Books; 1 Reprint edition (May 4, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307341577
- ISBN-13: 978-0307341570
- Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Murder
- #10 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Women Sleuths
- #32 in Books > literature & Fiction > Literary
Libby Day was seven years old when her mother and two sisters were massacred in a blood-soaked home invasion dubbed by the press as “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” It was Libby’s testimony which put her then-fifteen-year old brother, Ben, into prison for the rest of his life for the heinous murders.Now, it is almost twenty-five years later, and Libby, depressed, angry and broke has agreed to attend a meeting of the Kill Club, a strange conglomerate of people obsessed with famous murders. Some of the Kill Club members have become interested in the murders of Libby’s family because they are convinced that Ben has been wrongly convicted. After meeting with the Kill Club, Libby, although still sure that Ben is the murderer, decides to try to make some cash from her family’s grisly history by charging the Kill Club members to interview people who might have further information about the murders.
In hauntingly compelling prose, this wonderfully talented author deftly unfolds the story of what really happened during the early morning hours of January 3, 1985, and how searching for, and uncovering, that truth will change the lives of Libby and Ben.
The book is told in an interesting intermittent flashback format, with Libby, tough and damaged from her horrific childhood, narrating the present-day chapters in first-person, while the flashback chapters, told in third-person, describe the actions of several key characters on one winter’s day in 1985.
Besides Libby, the most fascinating character in the book is that of Ben, the awkward, aimless, angry boy, tottering on the brink of manhood.
Who killed Libby Day’s family? This is the mystery that is presented on the first page and the subsequent chapters detail Libby’s attempt – half-hearted at first, to get the answers she so desperately needs in order for her to get on track in life. The book alternates points of view from Libby in present day to various characters from the past – describing the events that led up to, and include the infamous day of the murders twenty-five years previous – January 2, 1985.
The book is paced and the author writes excellent and well developed descriptions of the characters – Libby’s mother, aunt Diane, sisters and brother – as well as of the setting of the Kinnakee, Kansas farm and Libby’s house on the bluff in Kansas City, Missouri. (As a KCMO native, I was surprised to find a book set in this Midwest city because it is so rare and I really enjoyed that fact about the book.)
Because of the way the novel is written, the various points of view in each chapter are used to advance Libby’s determination and investigation into actually and finally finding out who killed her family and why. The plot is revealed in layers and the reader isn’t quite sure how all of this is going to come together – but it does. This is not a heart pounding thriller, but a more dark and plodding one – you know that denouement is just around the corner – you’re hoping that Libby is going to get the information she wants as she confronts first one and then another of the surviving family and others involved with the search for the killer(s) of her family. Indeed, the hangers on – the Kill Club members – and her father, the loser Runner, only add to her consternation as she seems thwarted at every turn.
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