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Sharp Objects

By Gillian Flynn

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| eBook | 9780297860242

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When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described 'white trash from old money', is the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Long-haunted by a chilContinue

When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described 'white trash from old money', is the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family's Victorian mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows, a precocious 13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town and surrounds herself with a group of vampish teenage girls. As Camille struggles to remain detached from the evidence, her relationship with her neurotic, hypochondriac mother threatens to topple her hard-won mental stability. Working alongside the police chief and a special agent from out of town, Camille tries to uncover the mystery of who killed these little girls and why. But there are deeper psychological puzzles: Why does Camille identify so strongly with the dead girls? And how is this connected to the death of another sister years earlier?

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  • SHARP OBJECTS

    Journalist Camille Preaker is a writer – on so many levels. Words have a visceral effect on her: they flare, buzz, itch, scream. Camille has escaped the small-town hell of Wind Gap, but returns to report on the disappearance of a child. When a body i ... (read full critics)

    shotsmag published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • Sharp Objects By Gillian Flynn

    Someone is killing little girls in Wind Gap, Missouri. Hoping to scoop the bigger newspapers, an editor at the Chicago Daily Post sends reporter Camille Preaker to the tiny town to cover the story. Wind Gap just happens to be Camille's hometown, the ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • how refreshing to be able to put the blame for all your mistakes on your family. another book for women in which their destiny is written, literally, on their body: creepily entertaining all the same.

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    Elsastella said on May 24, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • This is the type of book that you sit up all night reading. I seriously got nothing done until it was finished. An exceptional book with a very dark plot line. Really well written, and the ending managed to surprise me. Lots of twists and turns! Highly recommended.

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    Heather Landry said on Jul 3, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • This book is creepy. And not in the keep you up at night way. It's truly disturbing. I can't believe this is the author's first novel. I only wish I could write in the same witty and compelling way. This one will stay with me for a very long time. Headed to the bookstore now for her second novel.

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    Leahrussell76 said on May 31, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • My thoughts

    This was a beautifully written book - both disturbing and poignant. The character Camille certainly made me think as she discovers the truth about herself and her family.

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    krin5292 said on Dec 4, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  • eBook 336 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0297860240
  • ISBN-13: 9780297860242
  • Publisher: Orion
  • Pub date: Sep 03, 2009
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
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