Dark Places

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Broadway Books, 2009 - 349 pages

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in The Satan Sacrifice" of Kinnakee, Kansas. She survived and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club asecret secret society obsessed with notorious crimes locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libbyhopes to turn a profitoff her tragic history: She ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club for a fee. As Libby s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started on the run from a killer.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
24
Section 3
51
Section 4
69
Section 5
90
Section 6
110
Section 7
133
Section 8
151
Section 14
266
Section 15
281
Section 16
290
Section 17
302
Section 18
313
Section 19
321
Section 20
330
Section 21
337

Section 9
167
Section 10
189
Section 11
208
Section 12
231
Section 13
246
Section 22
341
Section 23
344
Section 24
347
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About the author (2009)

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 24, 1971, Gillian Flynn earned English and journalism undergraduate degrees from the University of Kansas. She wrote for a trade magazine in California before moving to Chicago, where she received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Flynn moved to New York City and wrote for Entertainment Weekly for 10 years. She was the magazine's television critic for four years. Her debut novel, Sharp Objects, was published in 2006 and won two Dagger Awards. Her other works include Dark Places and Gone Girl. In 2014 Gone Girl was released as a major motion picture which starred Ben Affleck. Her books have been on the New York Times bestseller list for many weeks.

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