#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time).NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BEST … BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Slate • Kansas City Star • USA Today • Christian Science Monitor
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • St. Louis Post Dispatch • Chicago Tribune • HuffPost • Newsday
“Absorbing . . . In masterly fashion, Flynn depicts the unraveling of a marriage—and of a recession-hit Midwest—by interweaving the wife’s diary entries with the husband’s first-person account.”—New Yorker
“Ms. Flynn writes dark suspense novels that anatomize violence without splashing barrels of blood around the pages . . . Ms. Flynn has much more up her sleeve than a simple missing-person case. As Nick and Amy alternately tell their stories, marriage has never looked so menacing, narrators so unreliable.”—The Wall Street Journal
“The story unfolds in precise and riveting prose . . . even while you know you’re being manipulated, searching for the missing pieces is half the thrill of this wickedly absorbing tale.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
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This psychological thriller will make your jaw drop. It is incredibly well-crafted.
HOW did Flynn think of this oh-so-diabolical plot???
Just wow read this book before movie and was blown away not your everyday who done it!
A first rate psychological thriller… you have NO idea where this is taking you. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and the movie that followed was not that bad.
Close your eyes and don’t read this review if you are going to read this book. By the time I hit page 20, I was hooked and sunk. I read on non-stop until I got to the very very end of the book. This is my takeaway: how much do you love your child/children? No, really, how far would you go to protect them? If you were a father of a loved …
Excellent writing and enjoyed very much. Would recommend.
I really liked this book not at first but as I read I was very impressed and could not put it down. A very good read.
fair
Great story!
Kept you guessing the whole way through.
Nice plot twist, you could never guess the end.
One of my favorite books- twists and turns all over. Couldn’t put it down and was sad when it was over
Great, twisted story. Page turner! Loved it!
I have read everything this author has written. Every book has been incredible. You just never know where the story is going. INCREDIBLE author.
The writing was very good. But author was too long-winded. It wasn’t till 3/4 of the way in that it became bearable.
Seriously… You need to read this book! It is sooo good! There was a movie, but it doesn’t do it justice.
In my top five books that I have ever read, I reread it when my daughter was reading it over a summer, she would call me and tell me that she had something figured out, and then she would call me later screaming OMG you knew this and you didn’t tell me. She was very upset when the movie came out she did not think it did the book justice. You …
Worst book ever. Didn’t even finish. Skipped to the end to find out what happened. Drawn out and boring.
By now, everyone is probably familiar with this exciting twister. Great, fun reading.
I thought this was over-rated