Showing results by author "Gillian Flynn" in Literature & Fiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors—including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin! If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New...

Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the enduring gothic masterpiece Flowers in the Attic—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond...

The Edgar-winning short story from the author of Gone Girl. A young woman is making a living, faking it as a cut-price psychic working at Spiritual Palms (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage - mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old stepson, Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor, built in 1893.

Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away . . . the gripping second novel from the author of GONE GIRL and SHARP OBJECTS Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since...

Un thriller psicológico brillante con una trama tan apasionante y giros tan inesperados que es absolutamente imposible parar de leer. No has leído nada igual.En un caluroso día de verano, Amy y Nick se disponen a celebrar su quinto aniversario de bodas en North Carthage, a orillas del río Mississippi. Pero Amy desaparece esa misma mañana sin dejar rastro. A medida que la investigación policial avanza las sospechas recaen sobre Nick. Sin embargo, Nick insiste en su inocencia.

"Was denkst du gerade, Amy? Das habe ich sie oft gefragt. Was denkst du? Wie geht es dir? Wer bist du? Wie gut kennt man eigentlich den Menschen, den man liebt?" Genau das fragt sich Nick Dunne an diesem sonnigen Morgen seines fünften Hochzeitstages, als seine Frau spurlos verschwindet. Die Polizei verdächtigt sofort Nick. Amys Freunde berichten, dass sie Angst vor ihm hatte. Die Polizei findet immer mehr Indizien, die Nick belasten. Was geschah mit Nicks wunderbarer Frau Amy?

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...

"Babydoll" steht auf ihrem Bein. "Petticoat" auf ihrer linken Hüfte. "Böse" findet sich ganz in der Nähe. "Girl" prangt über ihrem Herzen, "schädlich" ist in ihr Handgelenk geritzt. Camille Preakers Körper ist übersät mit Wörtern. Wörtern, die sie sich in die Haut geritzt hat. Das letzte Wort, das sie sich einritzte, hieß "verschwinden". Danach stellte sie sich. Den Therapeuten, aber auch ihrer Vergangenheit. In ihrer alten Heimatstadt Wind Gap wurden zwei Teenager entführt und ermordet...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading...

Desde aquele dia, Libby passou a viver sem rumo. Uma vida paralisada no tempo, sem amigos, família ou trabalho. Mas, vinte e quatro anos depois, quando é procurada por um grupo de pessoas convencidas da inocência de seu irmão, Libby começa a se fazer as perguntas que até então nunca ousara formular. Será que a voz que ouviu naquela noite era mesmo a do irmão? Ben era considerado um desajustado na pequena cidade em que viviam, mas ele seria mesmo capaz de matar? Existiria algum segredo por trás daqueles assassinatos?

NOW AN HBO LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to...

Em Garota exemplar, a narrativa não linear de Gillian Flynn se alterna entre duas perspectivas opostas e conflitantes, construindo uma atmosfera dúbia, capaz de fazer o leitor mudar de opinião a cada capítulo. Com um humor perspicaz, o thriller expõe as consequências psicológicas da deterioração de um relacionamento íntimo. Se para muitos o problema está em acordar e perceber que não se conhece muito bem a pessoa com quem se divide a cama, Flynn alerta: o inferno pode ser conhecê-la bem demais.

Em seu romance de estreia, Gillian Flynn, a autora de Garota exemplar, dá um novo significado à expressão "família disfuncional". Aclamado pela crítica e por autores como Stephen King, o thriller psicológico Objetos cortantes recebeu da Crime Writer's Association os prestigiosos prêmios Ian Fleming Steel Dagger e John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, além de ter sido adaptado para série da HBO protagonizada por Amy Adams.

Die junge Nerdy bestreitet ihren Lebensunterhalt mit Wahrsagerei und sexuellen Dienstleistungen. Sie verdient nicht schlecht - meistens erzählt sie den Leuten genau das, was sie hören wollen. Bis Susan Burke sie um Hilfe bittet. Susan ist völlig verängstigt, denn sie ist davon überzeugt, dass ein böser Geist von ihrem Haus und ihrem Stiefsohn Besitz ergriffen hat. Nerdy wittert das Geschäft ihres Lebens, aber als sie das Haus zum ersten Mal betritt, fühlt sie es auch: Hier lauert etwas. Etwas absolut Böses. Etwas, das töten will.