- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: W&N (14 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297851578
- ISBN-13: 978-0297851578
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 361,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Truly gripping, with a real twist, this is a great second novel from Gillian Flynn" (Marie Jenkinson WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY )
"Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." (Kate Atkinson )
"With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke." (Val McDermid )
"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." (Stephen King )
"Dark Places confirms her as one of the very brightest stars in the genre firmament (Ben Hunt MATERIAL WITNESS )
"I don't think I'll read a better thriller this year" (Alex Heminsley BBC 6 MUSIC )
"Gutsy, atmospheric and suspense-loaded" (Fanny Blake Woman and Home )
"Dark Places, Flynn's second novel, confirms her exceptional talent" (Nick Clee TLS )
"Gripping stuff" (SHE )
"I really liked it.. it's the one to read" (Hepzibah Anderson UP ALL NIGHT, BBC RADIO FIVE LIVE )
"Dark Places is even better than the author's award-winning Sharp Objects" (Laura Wilson THE GUARDIAN )
"This is only Flynn's second crime novel - her debut was the award-winning Sharp Objects - and demonstrates even more forcibly her precocious writing ability and talent for the macabre" (Carla McKay DAILY MAIL )
"Gillian Flynn's debut Sharp Objects was brilliant.. Dark Places is even better. A stormer, even for those who don't usually 'do' thrillers" (Lottie Moggach THE LONDONPAPER )
"Dripping with ominous atmosphere, complex psychology and moral ambiguity" (BIG ISSUE IN SCOTLAND )
"This is a dark and intelligent crime thriller suffused with dread" (Stav Sherez CATHOLIC HERALD )
"Gillian Flynn's writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer." (Kate Atkinson )
"With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke." (Val McDermid )
"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." (Stephen King )
"Dark Places confirms her as one of the very brightest stars in the genre firmament (Ben Hunt MATERIAL WITNESS )
"I don't think I'll read a better thriller this year" (Alex Heminsley BBC 6 MUSIC )
"Gutsy, atmospheric and suspense-loaded" (Fanny Blake Woman and Home )
"Dark Places, Flynn's second novel, confirms her exceptional talent" (Nick Clee TLS )
"Gripping stuff" (SHE )
"I really liked it.. it's the one to read" (Hepzibah Anderson UP ALL NIGHT, BBC RADIO FIVE LIVE )
"Dark Places is even better than the author's award-winning Sharp Objects" (Laura Wilson THE GUARDIAN )
"This is only Flynn's second crime novel - her debut was the award-winning Sharp Objects - and demonstrates even more forcibly her precocious writing ability and talent for the macabre" (Carla McKay DAILY MAIL )
"Gillian Flynn's debut Sharp Objects was brilliant.. Dark Places is even better. A stormer, even for those who don't usually 'do' thrillers" (Lottie Moggach THE LONDONPAPER )
"Dripping with ominous atmosphere, complex psychology and moral ambiguity" (BIG ISSUE IN SCOTLAND )
"This is a dark and intelligent crime thriller suffused with dread" (Stav Sherez CATHOLIC HERALD )
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Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away. But what if he didn't do it? The thrilling new novel from the award-winning author of SHARP OBJECTS.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A stunning second book,
By Mary Reilly (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Places (Hardcover)
I was apprehensive about starting Gillian Flynn's second novel - I loved Sharp Objects so much and was worried I might be disappointed. But from the moment I started Dark Places I realised the book confirms Gillian Flynn's place as one of the most exciting crime writers I've read in a long time. It's truly chilling, wonderfully paced and I just had to read it in one sitting. Even if crime novels aren't your thing, it's worth reading this for the psychology alone - you can't help but be drawn in - I only hope you can get to sleep afterwards! I'm already excited about Gillian Flynn's third.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best and creepiest boooks I've read for a long while,
This review is from: Dark Places (Hardcover)
I loved this book - it creepy and it's dark and it's so compelling I didn't mind when it kept me up at night. Just the way you get inside Libby's mind, and have no idea what the truth is till the very, very end. I'd really recommend you read this book, head and shoulders above most other thrillers I read - Flynn's a great author, it's actually really well written - I can't wait to see what she does next. Libby and Ben are going to stay with you for a long, long time (though maybe best to keep the lights on!)
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Compelling and Voracious Tale that Will Set You Off Kilter...,
By Fiendishly Bookish "fiendishlybookish" (The Virtual Ether....) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Places (Hardcover)
"Dark Places" is a story that will stay with you long after the read, a troubled contemplation that when reflected upon later, you will end up asking yourself why your reality has just tilted slightly off kilter.
Gillian Flynn has taken the reader to desperate depths as she paints the tale of slovenly Libby Day, whose survival of a brutal farm massacre at age seven has tainted every day of her adult life. With her brother behind bars for nearly 24 years now, convicted of the murders, and the money running out, Libby is offered the opportunity from an unlikely source to sift through the ruins of her life, and probe the memories, the dark places, to find out who was really behind the massacre. But such growth does not come easily, and truth does not come without a cost, and somewhere out there a murderer(s) is still running around free. The mediocre, even the mundane everyday tasks for Libby seem almost insurmountable obstacles. Uncovering the truth will certainly be treacherous for her. She is a protagonist filled with bile that has been steeping her innards since the moment she ran stumbling out in the snow from the bloody house. Flynn's unvarnished character portrayal of the Day Family in the time leading up to the massacre, and through Libby's recollections is excruciatingly humble, and painful. It is a tale that exposes the vein of a poverty-stricken family hunkered down against the world. An air of malevolence surrounding them, like a storm ready to break. And then at times the rare glimpse into the soul: the mother Patty who is single-handedly trying to keep the family together and fed despite imminent foreclosure. A mother who will end up paying the ultimate price to save her family. Ben, the son who's spiraling down a sinister path from which there is no escape. Runner, the mean-spirited dead-beat dad who harasses the family. These are just a few of Flynn's crowning character achievements. All of these personalities and situations are a recipe for malignancy at their Kinnakee farm. Flynn is ruthless, and ferocious in her descriptions, as she is honest. Libby Day is not anyone's idea of a heroine, but she's persevering. Flynn places the reader on the same level as Day. The awkward journey of self-discovery is taken hand-in-hand. Just as easily as Libby slips the remnants of other peoples lives in her roomy kleptomaniac pockets, so do we. Perhaps someday too, we too can dig in those boxes under the stairs, expose the skeletons and stare them down without fear. Purge those dark places as well as Libby has compellingly done.
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