Gone Girl

A Novel

by Gillian Flynn

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Pub Date Jun 05 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012

Crown Publishing Group | Ballantine Books

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)

ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME, ONE OF CNN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE, AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Janet Maslin, The New York Times, People, Entertainment Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Slate, Kansas City Star, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor

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?

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, Newsday

Advance Praise

Praise for Gillian Flynn:

Dark Places

A weekend Today Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2009, the New Yorker's Reviewers' Favorites, and Chicago Tribune's Favorite Fiction of 2009

"[D]eliciously creepy."--People (4 stars)

"Disturbing and original . . . 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

"[F]erocious and unrelenting and pure pleasure from word one." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

"[C]ompulsively good. I would rather read [Flynn] than just about any other crime writer."--Kate Atkinson

Sharp Objects (An Edgar Nominee for Best First Novel and a BookSense Pick)

"To say this is a terrific debut novel is really too mild. 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. An admirably nasty piece of work, elevated by sharp writing and sharper insights." --Stephen King

"One of the freshest debut thrillers to come around in a long while. It's a gripping, substantive story, stripped of cliche, and crafted with great style." --Augusten Burroughs

"Sharp Objects is a witty, stylish, and compelling debut. A real winner." --Harlan Coben

Praise for Gillian Flynn:

Dark Places

A weekend Today Top Summer Read, Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2009, the New Yorker's Reviewers' Favorites, and Chicago Tribune's Favorite Fiction of...