{"product_id":"dark-places-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDark Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" A] nerve-fraying thriller.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.\" \u003cb\u003e--Dallas Morning News\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003eIt'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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" A] gripping thriller.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.\"\u003cb\u003e--Stephen King\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Flynn, Gillian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadway Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307341570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Gillian Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39385938591819,"sku":"9780307341570","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_33710bf6-bfd8-4620-9432-4f0dfddb418e.jpg?v=1622836612","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/dark-places-9780307341570","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}