I only stopped since it was the middle of the night and I really needed to get some sleep. Next thing I knew, I had read more than half the book in one sitting. Whenever I thought I would stop and take a break from reading, I decided to just read one more chapter. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started - on the run from a killer. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby's doomed family members - including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. and maybe she'll admit her testimony wasn't so solid after all.Īs Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. For a fee, she'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club. When they locate Libby and pump her for details - proof they hope may free Ben - Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who've long forgotten her. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived - and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer.
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. Paperback, 349 pages.I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Product Specifications Published by Broadway Books, 2010. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she is from Kansas City, MO and lives in Chicago with her husband and children. About the Author Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globe-nominated screenplay, and the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer.
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