Dark Places

how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off? To a man who asks me the questions that help me find my way? To a man who reads voraciously, makes a mean gumbo, looks smart in a tux, and whistles better than Bing? To a man who’s as old-school cool as Nick Charles, for crying out loud! What do I say about us? Two words.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    G ILLIAN FLYNN’s debut novel,
Sharp Objects,
was an Edgar Award finalist and the first book ever to win two of Britain’s Dagger Awards. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Brett Nolan, and a rather giant cat named Roy.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 2009 by Gillian Flynn
    All rights reserved.
    Published in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
    www.crownpublishing.com
    Shaye Areheart Books with colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Flynn, Gillian, 1971–
    Dark places / Gillian Flynn.—1st ed.
    p. cm.
    1. Children of murder victims—Fiction. 2. Family—Crimes against—
Fiction. 3. Juvenile homicide—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction.
5. Kansas City (Mo.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3606.L935D37 2009
    813′.6—dc22 2008040244
    eISBN: 978-0-307-45992-3
    v3.0