Dark Places (47 page)
Authors: Gillian Flynn
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.
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
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