Dark Places (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre.”

  — Stephen King

• “Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn't let go.”

  — Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Criminal

• “Gillian Flynn’s writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer.”

  — Kate Atkinson, New York Times bestselling author of Started Early, Took My Dog

• “Another winner!”

  — Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Stay Close

• “[A] nerve-fraying thriller.”

  — New York Times

• “Flynn’s well-paced story deftly shows the fallibility of memory and the lies a child tells herself to get through a trauma.” 

  — New Yorker

• “A riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off.” 

  — Chicago Tribune

• “Sardonic, riveting…Flynn has figured out how to fuse the believable characters, silken prose, and complex moral vision of literary fiction to the structure of a crime story.” 

  — Salon

• “In her first psychological thriller, Sharp Objects, Flynn created a world unsparingly grim and nasty…written with irresistibly mordant humor. The sleuth in her equally disturbing and original second novel is Libby Day…It’s Flynn’s gift that she can make a caustic, self-loathing, unpleasant protagonist someone you come to root for.”

  — New Yorker

• “In Dark Places, [Flynn’s] 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.” 

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Flynn follows her deliciously creepy Sharp Objects 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.”

  — People

• “By the end of this pitch-black novel, after we’ve loosened our grip on its cover and started breathing deeply again, we’re glad Flynn decided to share it.” 

  — NPR

• “Flynn’s second novel is a wonderful evocation of drab small-town life. The time-split narrative works superbly and the atmosphere is eerily macabre—Dark Places is even better than the author’s award-winning Sharp Objects.”

  — The Guardian (UK)

• “This is only Flynn’ s second crime novel—her debut was the award-winning Sharp Objects–and demonstrates even more forcibly her precocious writing ability and talent for the macabre.” 

  — Daily Mail (UK)

• “[A] gripping thriller.”

  — Cosmopolitan

• “Crackles with peevish energy and corrosive wit.” 

  — Dallas Morning News

• “Flynn returns to the front ranks of emerging thriller writers with her aptly titled new novel…Those who prefer their literary bones with a little bloody meat will be riveted.” 

  — Oregonian

• “The slick plotting in Dark Places will gratify the lover of a good thriller—but so, too, will Flynn’s prose, which is ferocious and unrelenting and pure pleasure from word one.” 

  — Cleveland Plain Dealer

• “Gillian Flynn may turn out to be a more gothic John Irving for the twenty-first century, a writer who uses both a surgeons scalpel and a set of rusty harrow discs to rip the pretty face off middle America.” 

  — San Jose Mercury News

• “Half the fun of Dark Places is Libby’s swampy psychology, which Flynn leads us through without the benefit of hip waders.”

  — Time Out Chicago

• “Deliciously creepy…Flynn follows 250-some pages of masterful plotting and character development with a speedway pileup of pulse-pounding revelations.”

  — Chicago Reader

• “Clever, engrossing and disturbing…[Dark Places] should cement [Flynn’s] place in the great authors of crime fiction.” 

  — Crimespree

• “Flynn’s second crime thriller tops her impressive debut, Sharp Objects…When the truth emerges, it’s so twisted that even the most astute readers won’t have predicted it.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Tight plotting and engaging characters.” 

  — Library Journal

• “A gritty, riveting thriller with a one-of-a-kind, tart-tongued heroine.” 

  — Booklist

• “Every sentence crackles with enough baleful energy to fuel a whole town through the coldest Kansas winter.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “A genuinely shocking denouement.” 

  — RT Book Reviews

• “These characters are fully realized—so true they could step off the page…Could. Not. Stop. Reading.”

  — Bookreporter.com

• “Libby’s voice is a pitch-perfect blend of surliness and emotionally charged imagery…The Kansas in these pages is a bleak, deterministic place where bad blood and lies generate horrifically unintended consequences. Though there’s little redemption here, Flynn manages to unearth the humanity buried beneath the squalor.”

  — Bloomberg.com

• “With her blistering debut Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn hit the ground running. Dark Places demonstrates that was no fluke.”

  — Val McDermid, author of The Vanishing Point