Dark Places

When she was seven years old, Libby Day survived the night her mother and two sisters were slaughtered in their Kansas farmhouse. Her testimony helped send her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, to prison for the murders — and for twenty-four years, Libby has lived off the dwindling sympathy of strangers: numb, broke, and doing everything she can not to think about any of it.

Then the money runs out, and a secretive group of true-crime obsessives who call themselves the Kill Club comes looking for her. They are convinced Ben is innocent, that Libby's childhood account was coerced, and they will pay her to dig back into the case. Desperate for cash, Libby starts tracking down the people from that winter — and the more she learns, the less certain she becomes about what she really saw that night.

Told across the single, terrible day in 1985 and Libby's grim present-day investigation, Gillian Flynn's Dark Places is a pitch-black thriller about family, poverty, and the lies we tell to survive the truth.