NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIESFROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her … preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Praise for Sharp Objects
“Nasty, addictive reading.”—Chicago Tribune
“Skillful and disturbing.”—Washington Post
“Darkly original . . . [a] riveting tale.”—People
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I wish I had HBO….super good book.
I have read all of her books and loved them. I thought what a dark twisted mind that the author must have. Loved the movie of Gone Girl and that is why I decided to read Gillian Flynn’s books. I have seen Dark Places on tv but was not impressed by the movie but liked the book better. Now I will get to see Sharp Objects. There is one part of Sharp …
wonderful
A very dark book, what we expect from Gillian Flynn. Lots of unsavory characters in this book! Was a page turner though, couldn”t wait to see how it ended.
Quite depressing.
More like this. My favorite author.
Wow! This book really held my attention…and it creeped me out. The nightmare characters, the acts of cruelty and the fragile main character ratcheted up the tension until I was sqeezing the book in a death grip. An added bonus is that the ending was very satisfying.