Sharp Objects and Dark Places

Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn
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Sharp Objects is Gillian Flynn’s debut thriller. Camille Preaker is a reporter for Chicago’s Daily Post. She is sent on assignment by her editor to go back to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri. Camille is sent to do a human interest piece on two missing local girls that show up dead in a grueling manner. The girls vanished less than a year apart. The town is scared for their little girls because the police have no leads. Once Camille is back in her old town you start learning the truth about why she left and had no desire to ever return. Her mother is the most influential person in town. In public she shows that she is the loving doting mother. In private she lets her disappointment and hate show for her oldest daughter. Being around her mother, Camille is drawn back to the times that made her so unhappy and she has the desire to harm herself again, something she has not done since she has been hospitalized. The deeper that Camille is involved in the investigation the more she is convinced that the killer is local. Flynn takes dysfunctional family to a whole new level in this twisting and turning suspense thriller.

Dark Places Gillian Flynn
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True to her first novel Gillian Flynn pens another suspense thriller more twisted than her first. Libby Day was seven when her mother and 2 older sisters were brutally murdered in the middle of the night on a cold day in January of 1985. Her testimony of what happened that day landed her older brother Ben, just 15 at the time a life term in prison. Not only does Libby have the emotional scars from that day she also has physical scars from the spending the night in the woods. It is now 24 years later and Libby needs money. She has never had to work and now her money is running out. A man named Lyle contacts her offering money if she will come to the next meeting of the Kill Club. The Kill Club is a group of people that meet and discuss old murder cases. Since Libby is so desperate for money she agrees. She was unprepared for what happens as she meets this club. Certain members of the group believe that she lied about what happened that day. They think that Ben is innocent and they want Libby to prove it. The story is told in alternating chapters between Libby in the present day, her mom Patty on the day she died and Ben on the day he allegedly committed the murders. There are so many things that happened on that fateful day in January and so many secrets were kept. The big question is if Ben did not commit the murders then who else was in the house that night?