Flynn specializes in dysfunctional
families and Missouri small town settings.
Camille Preaker is a reporter on a Chicago paper – not one of the well-known
ones. Although she has recently had a
breakdown related to her earlier problems as a “cutter,” she is back at work. Her editor, hoping to break a sensational
story of the murder and mutilation of a young girl and the recent disappearance
of a second child, urges her to return to her hometown where the events occurred
to write the story from her insider’s view.
She is reluctant to return, having avoided visiting her oddly dismissive
mother and an adolescent half-sister she barely knows. As in Gone
Girl, many things are not as they seem.
A truly creepy book that I found disturbing. 352 pp.
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