Gillian Flynn

Recién salida de una breve estancia en un hospital psiquiátrico, Camille Preaker se dirige a su ciudad natal a cubrir una serie de asesinatos para el periódico en el que trabaja. Por primera vez en once años, la reportera de sucesos regresa a la inmensa mansión en la que creció, donde se tendrá que enfrentar a los recuerdos de su hermana, que murió en plena adolescencia; pero lo que más perturba a Camille es la presencia de su madre, una mujer fría y manipuladora que despierta la admiración de sus vecinos y que vive obsesionada con su salud y la de los suyos.Con la policía local abrumada por los hechos, Camille llevará a cabo su propia investigación, desafiando las rígidas normas sociales de un pequeño pueblo de la América profunda.… (more)

I always get really excited when I get down to the end of a mystery and I am still completely in the dark about who did it and why, this was one of those books. It had me enthralled from start to finish and kept me on the edge with each new revelation. Certain parts are honestly almost sickening, but it is done in a carefully orchestrated way that doesn't lose the message that Flynn is conveying through it.
As someone who has lived my whole life in a town of less then 2000 people it truly captures the dark side of such places, even if it does so in an almost theatric manner, especially amongst adolescence and how bizarre and wrong such things can seem to outsiders.
Another big appeal for me personally is I hate when the endings to books about murder, tragedy, etc have overly happy endings, just something that will completely turn me off a book where the ending of this was exactly what I thought it should have been not dismal but far from happy.
The only reason I haven't given five stars is Flynn built such fascinating and unique characters I really would have liked to have seen more of them and their development/ undoings… (more)