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Gillian Flynn


GILLIAN FLYNN’s debut novel, Sharp Objects, was an Edgar Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain’s Dagger Awards. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Brett Nolan, and a rather giant cat named Roy.

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Dark Places
Written by Gillian Flynn

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Three Rivers Press | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-34157-0 (0-307-34157-7)

May 4, 2010 | $17.00

(Available May 4, 2010)


I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.


Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but...

Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a hardcover.

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Dark Places
Written by Gillian Flynn

Hardcover | 368 pages | Shaye Areheart Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-34156-3 (0-307-34156-9)

May 5, 2009 | $28.00



I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.


Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but...

Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.

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Dark Places
Written by Gillian Flynn

eBook | pages | Shaye Areheart Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-45992-3 (0-307-45992-6)

May 5, 2009 | $28.00



I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.


Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but...


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Dark Places

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-8357-5 (0-7393-8357-4)

May 5, 2009 | $25.99



I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.


Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but...

Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Sharp Objects
Written by Gillian Flynn

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Three Rivers Press | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-34155-6 (0-307-34155-0)

July 31, 2007 | $18.00



WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders...

Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and an eBook.

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Sharp Objects
Written by Gillian Flynn

eBook | 272 pages | Shaye Areheart Books | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-307-35148-7 (0-307-35148-3)

September 26, 2006 | $16.99



WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders...

Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and a trade paperback.

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Sharp Objects
Written by Gillian Flynn
Read by Ann Marie Lee

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-7393-4018-9 (0-7393-4018-2)

September 26, 2006 | $21.00



WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.