By Gillian Flynn

Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Crown Publishers, 2012

This book has had over eight hundred holds on it in my library system for the past couple of months.  It is the must read of 2012.  I think I first became aware of it through EarlyWord, but it wasn’t until I put a hold on it for a patron that I decided to get on the waiting list myself.  The patron was raving about what she had heard about it and it got me curious.  I had been waiting at least a couple of months – I was around 250 on the waiting list – when I saw an express copy come through my library.  The express copies are the ones that don’t go on reserve. 

I have to say that I believe it is worthy of all the hype it has been getting.  It is very suspenseful and keeps one on edge throughout the entire story.  It also has funny parts – disturbingly funny parts.  The characters are very flawed and very believable.  It is a mystery, but it is also a story about marriage.  The story is written in first person from both Nick and Amy’s perspectives (husband and wife).  It truly is an amazing story.

Genres: Mystery, suspense, thriller, crime thriller

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780307588364

Audience: Adult

Number of pages: 415 (419 including Acknowledgments)

Setting: New York City, North Carthage, Hannibal, & St. Louis, Missouri, The Ozarks

Time period: 2005 – present

Subject headings:

From Pima County Public Library:

Husbands — Fiction.

Married people — Fiction.

Wives — Crimes against — Fiction.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General.

FICTION / Suspense.

FICTION / Thrillers.

Mystery fiction.

Similar works:

Die for You by Lisa Unger

The Breaker by Minette Walters

Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

Other:

Gillian Flynn’s website