Friday 29 November 2013

Dark Places, Gillian Flynn

Read on the Kindle, purchased on Kindle daily deal along with Sharp Objects.

Libby Day is the only survivor of the massacre that wiped out her whole family.  Her brother Ben is in prison for life, convicted of the crime.

When the book opens, Libby is in her 20's and the money from the charitable fund set up to help her has all but run out.  Ill equipped to stand on her own two feet, she is contacted by members of the "Kill Club" who want to pay her for a personal appearance.

Once she meets them, she discovers that the Kill Club believe her brother is innocent, and they want her to help them prove it.

Again, I enjoyed the atmosphere of menace in this book.  I liked the structure, which wove in chronological flashbacks to the night of the massacre with the present day time line.  Credulity was stretched a little towards the end.

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