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When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri, journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to report on the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows - a precocious 13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims - a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.
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Product details
- Paperback | 336 pages
- 128 x 197 x 20mm | 225g
- 03 Jan 2013
- Orion Publishing Co
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- MMP Latest Reissue
- 0753822210
- 9780753822210
- 3,785
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To say this is a terrific debut novel is really too mild ... [it is] a relentlessly creepy family saga. I found myself dreading the last thirty pages or so, but was helpless to stop turning them. Then, after the lights were out, the story just stayed there in my head, coiled and hissing, like a snake in a cave Stephen King
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`fizzes with colour and tension...a brilliant debut` GUARDIAN `A compellnig story, absolutely unputdownable` TELEGRAPH & ARGUS
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About Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn was the chief TV critic for ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. She is the author of two novels - SHARP OBJECTS and DARK PLACES.
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Our customer reviews
Many books start with characters in bad circumstances who escape those places. Sharp Objects looks at what happens when you return.
Camille Preaker is a reporter dealing with life after a stay in a psych ward (or the politically correct, "mental health inpatient unit"). Her alert editor smells a story, a potential serial killer on the loose in a small town, that will boost the paper's prestige. The murders, however, are taking place in Preaker's home town, Wind Gap.
Once back there, Preaker struggles to remain the adult she's become since she left and moved to Chicago. She finds herself deferring to her mother and wanting her sister to like her.
Like Preaker, I had a childhood filled with troubles - I was sexually abused by two relatives and emotionally abused by another - and while I've resolved those things, whenever I return to visit my family, I find myself acting like a little boy.
Flynn's story is gripping. One of the things I love most about crime novels is working out who did it. Flynn outwitted me and I'm grateful. Her writing is sharp and fresh.
If you like crime books, then this is a no-brainer must-read.show more
by Daniel G. Taylor