Dark Places: A NovelCrown, 2009 M05 5 - 368 pages NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN HBO LIMITED SERIES From the acclaimed author of Gone Girl, “a riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off” (Chicago Tribune) “Sensuous and chilling . . . a propulsive and twisty mystery.”—Entertainment Weekly 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—a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes—locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby hopes to turn a profit off 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. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 24 |
Section 3 | 51 |
Section 4 | 69 |
Section 5 | 90 |
Section 6 | 110 |
Section 7 | 133 |
Section 8 | 151 |
Section 15 | 281 |
Section 16 | 290 |
Section 17 | 302 |
Section 18 | 313 |
Section 19 | 321 |
Section 20 | 330 |
Section 21 | 337 |
Section 22 | 341 |
Section 9 | 167 |
Section 10 | 189 |
Section 11 | 208 |
Section 12 | 231 |
Section 13 | 246 |
Section 14 | 266 |
Section 23 | 344 |
Section 24 | 347 |
Section 25 | 351 |
Section 26 | 353 |
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