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While vacationing in Virginia Beach, I finished this. Despicable female characters. Good read, though! Excellent writing.
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This is a fantastic author. I believe this was the first book she wrote (I loved Gone Girl so I am reading everything she wrote, I start Dark Places soon). This is another psychological/crime thriller. An investigator with a dark and twisty past of her own, is called to be the reporter and investigate the two murders of young girls who happen to be from her home town. What makes it all the more intriguing is that this reporter is staying at her childhood home (and she did not have a good childho
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Again, another Gillian Flynn book I preferred over Gone Girl. This one kept my attention from the start and made me want to complete it in a day. I just wish I had more free time to do that! Such a sad revelation by the end. Sick and oppressive.
The story and characters are very sad and disturbing. Some of the characters seemed a little bit too cliche and you fairly quickly figure out who the primary culprits are. Overall, I did like this book, but did not love it.
Camille Preaker is a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Her editor assigns her to return to her hometown in Wind Gap, Missouri to report on the disappearance of a young girl and the murder of another young girl 8 months ago. Her editor believes a serial killer may be at work. Camille has to deal with her very disturbed family including her mother Adora, half sister Amma and step father Alan. A good but very dark thriller.
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