GONE GIRL GONE GIRL

#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Themercilessly 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 TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin,The New York TimesPeopleEntertainment WeeklyO: The Oprah MagazineSlateKansas City StarUSA TodayChristian Science MonitorOn 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 BYSan Francisco ChronicleSt. Louis Post DispatchChicago TribuneHuffPostNewsdayAbsorbing . . . 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 YorkerMs. 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 JournalThe 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