The pages hop from present to the past, whilst revealing more details about the day of the massacre. Flynn tells the story from three perspectives: Patty Day is struggling mother of four, Ben is a troubled teenager with probably the darkest mind and Patty is now an adult whose present has been brutally marked by the past.

As Libby re-investigates the case, she uncovers many facts that point at Ben’s innocence.įlynn’s writing is scary, the kind of scary that makes you want to keep turning pages to find out what happens next. After 24 years Libby runs out of money and is compelled to revisit the case because Kill Club (a group of people that have interests in exploring real-life murder cases) is willing to finance it. Ben is sent off to jail and Libby continues on with her miserable life. Evidence pointed at her brother Ben and Libby testified against him too. Libby Day is a survivor of a grotesque massacre that took away her mother and two sisters. And was I in for a psychological roller-coaster ride! So the DVD starring Chalize Theron for Dark Places would have to wait, I absolutely had to read this book first. Since I missed out on that book, I wasn’t going to ruin this one for me. I am one of those people who always finds the book better than the movie. Gone Girl is based on a book by Gillian Flyn. And it was followed by several minutes of dumbfoundedness (I invented that word only now), it was nothing like the mysteries I had seen before.

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