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  • Dark Places, now in paperback

    • A Weekend TODAY “Top Summer Read”
    • One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2009
    • One of The New Yorker’s Reviewers’ Favorites of 2009
    • One of The Chicago Tribune’s Favorite Fiction of 2009

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    • Dark Places grips you from the first page and doesn’t let go. — Karin Slaughter
    • Gillian Flynn’s writing is compulsively good. I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer. — Kate Atkinson
    • Brilliant…Powerful, mesmerizing…A stunning, powerful debut from someone who truly has something to say. — San Jose Mercury News
    • Keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction. — The Chicago Tribune
    • Tough, surprising crime fiction that dips its toes in the deeper waters of literary fiction. — Chicago Sun-Times
    • Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre. — Stephen King