Ice-pick sharp…spectacularly sneaky…impressively cagey.” –Janet Maslin, New York Times

BACK COVER:

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. As the police begin to investigate, the town golden boy parades a series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

REVIEW:

Mercilessly menacing, hilariously terrifying, and deviously wicked. Flynn cleverly manipulates the reader’s thoughts, predictions, and uncertainties. She holds her audience captivated, enthralled, in the palm of her hand. She surpasses mesmerizing and plunges into hypnotizing. It begs to be read twice simply to put the reader’s mind at ease, to navigate the clues she so wittingly hid the first read through. Flynn once again creates characters we can’t entirely trust, leaving us incapable to love or hate them until everything we are to know of them is displayed—at the end of the novel. We don’t want to admit the brilliance and stupidity of the characters, but find them fascinating in their easy ability to be manipulated—as Flynn does to us. She proves that everything is never as it seems and plants the thrilling possibility of not really knowing your spouse.