Part Three: Boy Gets Girl Back (or vice versa)

[High Plains]

1. When Part 3 starts up with Nick out on bond awaiting trail. He senses something is wrong when he hears camera crews outside his home. When he opens his door he finds Amy standing there.
Were you surprised that Amy came back?

2. Amy publicly denounces the local police and criticizes their investigation.
Do you think they did a good job of investigating her disappearance?
Were there real missteps, or was their failing due to Amy’s plotting?

3. Amy plays the police the police, and explains to them that Desi abducted and raped her. Amy claims the killing of Desi was in self-defense.
Do you think Amy’s account sounded iron-clad?

4. Was Amy justified in killing Desi?

5. Do you think Desi would have let her go when she wanted to leave?

6. In the end of the book we find out Amy is pregnant, thus forcing Nick to spend the rest of his life protecting their child.
Did you expect Amy getting pregnant?

7. What do you think is going to happen after the baby is born?

8. There was a lot of reference to “writing” in this book.
Who do you think was the better writer: Nick or Amy?
Who’s story would have made the better selling book?

9. The book ends with Amy saying, “I don’t have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.”
Did you like this ending?
Did you want Amy to be brought to justice?

10. The author states she did not end the book with a sequel being in mind.
Would you read a sequel to Gone Girl?