Author
Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn writes thriller and mystery. We've read and reviewed 3 of Gillian Flynn's books, including Gone Girl and Sharp Objects, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl turns a missing-wife case into a study of marriage as performance and mutual surveillance. Built on dual narration and a midpoint that rewires everything, it gives you two narrators you can't fully trust. Ideal for readers who want their suspense cynical, witty, and willing to leave a bruise.
Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn's 2006 debut sends a fragile reporter back to her Missouri hometown to cover two child murders, and the real danger turns out to be the house she grew up in.
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
Twenty-five years after her mother and sisters were killed in a Kansas farmhouse, Libby Day starts selling her memories to a club of true-crime hobbyists, then starts pulling at the testimony that put her brother in prison. Gillian Flynn's second novel is a rural-poverty tragedy wearing a murder mystery, and it is meaner than Gone Girl.