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Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

  • 368 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2009
  • 32 editions
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1 About this book

Dark Places is a mystery novel by Gillian Flynn published in 2009. The novel deals with class issues in rural America, intense poverty and the Satanic cult hysteria that swept the United States in the 1980s.

Dark Places was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and won Dark Scribe Magazine's Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. It was also listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for two consecutive weeks. A film adaptation of the novel starring Charlize Theron was released on August 7, 2015.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: a thriller and a mystery.

  • Crimes against
  • Thrillers
  • Mystery
  • Victims of crimes
  • Crime
  • Family life
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Homicide

2 About Gillian Flynn

Born 1971

Gillian Schieber Flynn (; born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012). Her works have been published in 40 languages, and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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