WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker’s troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille’s first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory. HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming. With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable.

三大驚悚∕推理大師聯合推薦！ 美國著名暢銷作家 史蒂芬．金：吉莉安．弗琳真不是蓋的！文筆辛辣，極盡鋪陳之能事，就是要你毛骨悚然。 美國懸疑小說大師 哈蘭．科本：繼《利器》之後，又一登峰造極之作。 英國最受歡迎的女性犯罪作家 薇兒．麥克德米：吉莉安．弗琳出手不凡，處女作《利器》一夕暴紅，《暗處》證明其成功絕非僥倖。 佳評無數 *引人入勝的故事，寒毛直豎的情節，絕對只有才華洋溢的寫手才能辦的到。－－《芝加哥論壇報》（Chicago Tribune） *「一拿起，就放不下。」－－《柯夢波丹》（Cosmopolitan） *「吉莉安．弗琳就是那麼會寫！讀過她的作品之後，大概就不用再去讀其他犯罪小說了。」－－凱特．艾金森（英國惠布瑞特好書獎得主） *「《暗處》從你翻開書的那一刻就緊緊抓著你，不到最後一頁絕不放手。」－－凱琳．史勞特（暢銷犯罪小說家，著有《盲視》、《蘿莉的秘密》） *乍看之下，《暗處》的女主角麗比．天簡直惹人生厭，她迎合一群興趣病態的傢伙，拿家人的死作為賺錢的工具。然而，她意志過人、伶牙俐齒，讓你捨不得移開目光。麗比自己說的好：「卑鄙像器官，實實在在地長在我的身體裡。」沒錯，她確實卑鄙！在這本闃黑小說的尾聲，你鬆開緊抓著書頁不放的手指，在長長的屏息之後開始深深地呼吸。很高興弗琳願意跟世人分享這麼精采的作品。－－潔莎．克里斯賓（「全美公共廣播電台」書評） *吉莉安．弗琳儼然是二十一世紀的約翰．厄文，而且其怪誕恐怖更勝前人。她一手拿著手術的解剖刀，一手拿著生鏽的輪刀，準備好要劃開美國中西部美麗的地表。－－加州《聖荷西搶鮮報》（San Jose Mercury News） *這部小說描寫的，全是讓人不寒而慄的黑暗面，而弗琳筆鋒銳利，句句力透紙背，讓整部小說的基調更為陰鬱。《暗處》情節進展流暢，文字張力十足， 一下筆就抓住讀者的目光，絕對能滿足你嗜讀一流恐怖小說的渴望。－－俄亥俄州《克里夫蘭誠報》（Cleveland Plain Dealer） *弗琳完全寫活了麗比！這位身心受創的女主角一直活在自己的世界，平時最愛用陰沈的比喻：「如果要畫我的靈魂，大概會是一張滿是獠牙的塗鴉」。而閱讀《暗處》最大的樂趣，有一半來自窺探麗比沼澤般黑暗的內心，現在請赤著腳，緊跟著作者，一起穿越麗比內心深處的黑暗沼澤。－－娛樂雜誌《Time Out芝加哥》（Time Out Chicago） *嘻笑怒罵，耽緬沉迷……弗琳就像凱特．艾金森（Kate Atkinson），在犯罪小說的結構中，融入栩栩如生角色、行雲流水的文字和錯綜複雜的道德議題……你感覺到風雨欲來，猶如烏雲從平原另一端逐漸逼近，卻讓你猜不出是什麼形狀。－－蘿拉．米勒（Salon.com書評） *敘事者麗比．天說話很衝，內容虛虛實實……她口中的堪薩斯是她無比荒涼的宿命，就是在這個地方，怨恨和謊言召來了意想不到的下場，雖然救贖渺無希望，但是作者弗琳卻在這片齷齪卑鄙中找到人性的光芒。－－《彭博電子報》（Bloomberg.com） *本書場景設在荒涼的美國中西部，弗琳筆下的小鎮生活、脫離常軌的角色、恐怖又令人著迷的情節，在在堪比一代宗師楚門．卡波提的紀實恐怖小說《冷血》（In Cold Blood）。《冷血》以新聞報導的筆法，描述一樁真實發生的滅門血案，情節內容與《暗處》多處雷同。雖然《暗處》才只是弗琳的第二部恐怖小說，但其處女作《利器》已獲獎肯定，最新力作又再次展現其過人的寫作功力，閃爍著營造恐怖氣氛的天份。－－英國《每日郵報》（Daily Mail） *一翻開弗琳的第二部小說，眼前立刻浮現單調沉悶的小鎮生活。精采的時空交錯雙線敘事，令人忐忑不安的詭異恐怖氛圍，比之前一部得獎作品《利器》，最新力作《暗處》是有過之而無不及。－－英國《衛報》（The Guardian） *二十四年前一樁滅門血案，如今唯一的生還者不得不舊地重返，面對她所不願意面對的真相……這是弗琳繼《利器》之後又一力作，小說時間在今昔之間穿梭，一邊是女主角麗比忿忿不平地展開調查工作，一邊是作者倒敘血案發生前二十四小時的種種，兩條故事主線同時奔向破案的關鍵點，讓迫不及待的你簡直不知道要先看哪一邊才好……《暗處》充滿了邪惡能量，其能量之強，足以供一座村莊挺過堪薩斯的嚴冬。－－《科克斯書評》（Kirkus Reviews） *久久會出現這麼一本書，賦予老故事嶄新的意義。四十多年前，楚門．卡波提的《冷血》將讀者帶到堪薩斯州柯勒特家的農場，讓讀者嚐嚐當殺人犯的滋味。現在，弗琳帶著當代讀者重返堪薩斯，來到一九八五年天家滅門血案的現場，從血案生還者和嫌疑犯的角度來重述整個虛構的故事－－情節安排緊湊，人物刻劃精采！－－美國《圖書館週刊》（Library Journal）

光用『恐怖』兩字，根本不足以形容這部小說處女作…… 在剩下差不多三十頁左右我就不敢再繼續往下看了， 但手指頭卻又不聽使喚地繼續翻著書頁。 －－史蒂芬．金 每個人的人生都有脫軌的時候。我的第一次是妹妹去世那天；第二次則是舉起刀的晚上…… 13歲那年，卡蜜兒最疼愛的妹妹久病過世，就在同一年的夏天，她找到了解放生命痛苦的出口－－她上癮似的，無法自拔地用尖利的器具在自己身上刻字，唯一完好無缺的部位是上背部一小塊皮膚跟她貌美的臉龐。 18年後，在三流報社擔任記者的卡蜜兒，極不情願地奉命回到故鄉追蹤兩起女童凶殺案件。遭到謀害的女童被發現時牙齒都被拔光，腿毛被刮掉，塗上口紅。兇手殘忍的手段，讓整個小鎮陷入極端的恐慌，居民們個個人心惶惶。 就在卡蜜兒一步步深入探究凶殺案件的真相時，卻也不小心挖掘出埋藏在自己家中的駭人秘密。而這個秘密所揭露的真相將她逼到了生命的邊緣，迫使她身上唯一僅存的完好皮膚也即將難以倖免於自殘的刀口下……

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived–and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who’ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details–proof they hope may free Ben–Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she’ll admit her testimony wasn’t so solid after all. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby’s doomed family members–including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started–on the run from a killer.

Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed thather work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.” Gone Girl ’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge . Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet? With herrazor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.