Finished Sa 4/27/13
My post at Good Reads-
The heart of this particularly grizzly murder mystery is the brutal massacre of a rural Kansas family during the 'Satanic Panic' of 80's America, yet the novel also offers a brilliant portrait of the effects of hopelessness and unrelenting poverty as the nation's family owned farm system imploded. Libby Day was only seven years old when she barely escaped the murders of her mother and two older sisters as they were stabbed, shotgunned, and strangled in their shabby farmhouse, and her hapless brother,Ben, was later convicted of the slaughter. Ben was a lonely high school student with no prospects who was about to be falsely accused of child molestation and slandered as a devil worshiper, and although connected to the crime by circumstantial evidence, he never revealed all that he knew. Nearly a quarter century later Libby is approached by 'The Kill Club', a group of True Crime enthusiasts, to help ascertain all the facts of this horrible bloody mass murder.
The pace of the novel is unrelenting, and I read it straight through in a couple of sittings. I loved it, and will read more of Gillian Flynn's novels.
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