{"product_id":"9780307341570","title":"Dark Places","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • From the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGone Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibby 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibby 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDark Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] nerve-fraying thriller.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Flynn’s well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in \u003ci\u003eSharp Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, her sensuous and chilling first thriller. In \u003ci\u003eDark Places\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Flynn follows her deliciously creepy \u003ci\u003eSharp Objects\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e (4 stars)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.” \u003cb\u003e—Dallas Morning News\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's Flynn's gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] gripping thriller.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.”\u003cb\u003e—Stephen King\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gillian Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Crown |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2010-05-04","offer_id":44151484809471,"sku":"9780307341570","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e5b5e728-2e1f-4599-8646-1105a80e8833.jpg?v=1645626806","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780307341570","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}