CURRENTLY READING (#51): DARK PLACES by GILLIAN FLYNN

"The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it."

"It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so."

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Facts:

Title: Dark Places

Author: Gillian Flynn

Publisher: Phoenix

First Publication Date: 

Format: May 5th 2009

Pages: 421

Genres: Adult, Mystery, Thriller...

First Lines

"I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. It's the Day blood. Something's wrong with it."

Synopsis: 

Libby Day was just seven years old when her evidence put her fifteen-year-old brother behind bars.

Since then, she has been drifting. But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben's innocence, Libby starts to ask questions she never dared to before. Was the voice she heard her borther's? Ben was a misfit in their small town, but was he capable of murder? Are there secrets to uncover at the family farm or is Libby deluding herself because she wants her brother back?

She begins to realise that everyone in her family had something to hide that day... especially Ben. Now, twenty-four years later, the truth is going to be even harder to find.

Who did massacre the Day family?

"I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple."