Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news coverage & dogged investigation into her abduction the police have uncovered nothing. & as the Indian summer fades Amanda Mc Cready stays gone
- vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed. Then a second child disappears. Confronted with a police force seething with lethal secrets Kenzie & Gennaro soon discover that those who go looking for the missing may not come back alive.
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Its just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school & we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind? As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburghs Portobello Beach he is called by his sons school: his wife Lauren hasnt turned up to collect their son. Calm at first Mark collects Nathan & takes him home but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry. With brilliantly controlled reveals we learn some of the painful secrets of the couples shared past not least that it isnt the first time Lauren has disappeared. & as Mark struggles to care for his son & shield him from the truth of whats going on the police seem dangerously short of leads. That is until a shocking discovery... ...

What are you thinking Amy? The question Ive asked most often during our marriage if not out loud if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amys friends reveal that she was afraid of him that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isnt true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they arent his. & then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nicks beautiful wife? & what was left in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel marriage truly is the art of war... ...

What are you thinking Amy? The question Ive asked most often during our marriage if not out loud if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amys friends reveal that she was afraid of him that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isnt true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they arent his. & then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nicks beautiful wife? & what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel marriage truly is the art of war... See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of Gone Girl See Gillian Flynn talk about her book Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for Gone Girl Judys Review This is a wonderful & compelling thriller very dark complex & intelligent. Gone Girl opens on the morning of Nick & Amy Dunnes fifth wedding anniversary. Nick wakens to find Amy in the kitchen making breakfast pancakes. Spotting him she "leaned against the kitchen counter & said Well hello handsome." But in Nicks head is this " Bile & dread inched up my throat. I thought to myself
- OK go." That unsettling start to the book Nicks ambivalent response to his wifes apparently happy greeting on their wedding anniversary sets the tone for the rest of this dazzlingly thrilling story. Later that day Amy goes missing. Their front door is open the coffee table shattered books scattered around. Amy is a rich trust fund New Yorker but the recession has left Nick redundant from his job as a magazine writer. The couple has moved back to his old home in Missouri which Amy hates. Nick calls the police
- they question him
- & again his tone is dark ambivalent. "I felt myself enacting the Concerned Husband " he says. "I wasnt sure what to say now. I raked my memory for the lines. What does the husband say at this point in the movie? Depends on whether hes guilty or innocent." Exactly. & the police soon begin to suspect he is guilty. Gone Girl is told both from Nicks & Amys points of view. Nick records how not only the police but also a sensationalised American media point the finger of guilt at him. After all Amy is blonde & beautiful t"


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THE ADDICTIVE No.1 US BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. & then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? ...

When the skeleton of a young woman is found near a West Midlands motorway evidence suggests that it is that of teenager Molly James who went missing five years ago. Forensic psychologist Dr Kate Hanson & the Unsolved Crime Unit are called in to re-investigate Mollys case. The deeper they dig the dirtier the clues get & when a second set of remains is unearthed Kate suspects theyre looking for a Repeater: a killer who will adapt grow & not stop until they are caught. Will Dr Hanson manage to unravel the tangle of clues that the killer has left behind before he has a chance to take another innocent victim? ...

Becca slogged through a deep drift & stumbled toward the front of the shanty. A padlock hung from the hasp but it wasnt engaged. Shaking with cold she shoved open the door. The interior was dark & hushed. The air smelled of kerosene & fish. Out of the wind it was so quiet she could hear the ice creaking beneath her feet. Her breath puffing out in clouds of white vapour she pulled out the candle & matches shed brought from home & lit the wick. The light revealed a small interior with plywood walls & a shelf covered with fish blood & a smattering of silver scales. A lantern sat on the shelf. A coil of rope hung on the wall.. . Three teenagers have vanished from Ohios Amish country. The only thing they have in common other than their religion is they are keen to leave the Plain Life. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to consult by Agent John Tomasetti as her Amish roots will be invaluable in an investigation involving this sectarian society. They travel to the small town of Monongahela Falls to investigate the latest disappearance -- that of seventeen-year-old Annie King. The only evidence left behind is a satchel -- & a pool of blood. The case moves closer to home for Kate when a young relative Sadie Miller vanishes. With her own past resonating Kate delves into the lives of the missing teens. Soon a sinister pattern emerges along with a vital clue that changes everything. While following up on a lead Kate makes an appalling discovery & unearths a secret no one could have imagined--thrusting her into a fight to the death with a merciless killer. ...

When an Amish teenager disappears it's only the beginning.. .' Becca slogged through a deep drift & stumbled toward the front of the shanty. A padlock hung from the hasp but it wasn't engaged. Shaking with cold she shoved open the door. The interior was dark & hushed. The air smelled of kerosene & fish. Out of the wind it was so quiet she could hear the ice creaking beneath her feet. Her breath puffing out in clouds of white vapour she pulled out the candle & matches she'd brought from home & lit the wick. The light revealed a small interior with plywood walls & a shelf covered with fish blood & a smattering of silver scales. A lantern sat on the shelf. A coil of rope hung on the wall.. .' Three teenagers have vanished from Ohio's Amish country. The only thing they have in common other than their religion is they are keen to leave the Plain Life. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to consult by Agent John Tomasetti as her Amish roots will be invaluable in an investigation involving this sectarian society. They travel to the small town of Monongahela Falls to investigate the latest disappearance -- that of seventeen-year-old Annie King. The only evidence left behind is a satchel -- & a pool of blood. The case moves closer to home for Kate when a young relative Sadie Miller vanishes. With her own past resonating Kate delves into the lives of the missing teens. Soon a sinister pattern emerges along with a vital clue that changes everything. While following up on a lead Kate makes an appalling discovery & unearths a secret no one could have imagined--thrusting her into a fight to the death with a merciless killer. ...

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because theyre nervous. By definition theyre all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two oclock in the morning Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers he becomes sharply aware: one by one she ticks off every bulletpoint on his list. So begins the new heartstopping new thriller starring todays most admired action hero the gallant & enigmatic loner Jack Reacher. ...

Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise as he faces his most implacable enemy yet. Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. There are twelve things to look for. No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them. New York City. The subway two oclock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isnt. The train brakes for Grand Central Station. Will Reacher intervene & save lives? Or is he wrong? Will his intervention cost lives
- including his own?
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