Dark Places
A Novel
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- 1,49 €
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN HBO LIMITED SERIES
From the acclaimed author of Gone Girl, “a riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off” (Chicago Tribune)
“Sensuous and chilling . . . a propulsive and twisty mystery.”—Entertainment Weekly
Libby 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.
Libby 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.
Customer Reviews
Very very clever and a study in whodunnit writing
The structure of the book is a milestone in whodunnit writing and the cunning usage of the smallest of sidetracks hundreds of pages after they are introduced makes me envy the author’s wit. The Thanks presented in the afterword give some explanation to the effortlessness of throwing interesting details around, but most of all underscore the book-perfecting humility of the writer.
I will measure other crime books against this one.