'Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.'

And when the truth emerges, it's so macabre not even twisted little Libby Day could see it coming.' The story, alternating between the 1985 murders and the present, has a tense momentum that works beautifully. has conjured up a whole new crew of feral and troubled young females. , her equally sensuous and chilling follow-up, Flynn. , her sensuous and chilling first thriller. 'Gillian Flynn coolly demolished the notion that little girls are made of sugar and spice in 'Flynn's well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.' 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. 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. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben.

Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. 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. , and the basis for the major motion picture starring Charlize Theron

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