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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 1st Printing. A near fine US first edition, first printing hardback in a near fine dustjacket (protected by a removable, clear thin mylar sleeve)-My books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)-SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a member of her own family-pictures available upon request.
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Acceptable. Hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Acceptable reading copy with obvious signs of use, wear, and/or cosmetic issues. Item is complete and remains readable despite notable condition issues.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book First edition, first printing, hardcover. 349 pages. Near fine in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. NOT price-clipped. NOT ex-library. The author's second novel.
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Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line in near fine / very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are solid with a small bump on the bottom front corner, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. Previous owner's name written on the rear paste-down page. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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-1. Signed by author Gillian Flynn on the title page with a brief inscription to the previous owner. Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line in near fine / very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear, but otherwise the book is in near like new condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
I had a hard time staying interested in the story.
BeckyJG
Aug 9, 2009
Dark Places
Libby Day is a survivor, a professional victim, and not a very nice person. For her entire adult life Libby has lived off a victim's trust fund established by well-wishers across the country, after the brutal massacre of her entire family. The bloody slaying of Libby's mother and two sisters happened when she was seven, at the hands of her fifteen year old brother Ben. Or so she testified in his trial, and so she has believed in the intervening 24 years. Recently, however, she's begun to doubt the veracity of her own testimony. Did she really see what she thought she saw? Was she fed lines by the shrinks and the prosecutors, lines that she eventually came to believe? By Libby's own admission, though, the impetus driving her to find the truth comes from the dwindling of her trust fund and a request by a member of a true crime club devoted to her case--more specifically, to the proof of her brother's innocence--that she use her connections, for a fee, to lead them to the real killer or killers.
The crime occurred in January of 1985, when the country was seeing Satanic ritual abuse in every basement and behind the locked doors of every pre-school. The Day family, mother Patty, Ben, and three daughters, Michelle, Debbie, and Libby, are a painfully poor farm family in rural Kansas. Their story unfolds in third person chapters told from the points of view of Patty and Ben, which alternate with present day first person chapters narrated by the not particularly reliable Libby.
Dark Places unfolds at a tantalizing pace, each short chapter fitting another little piece of the puzzle into place. There are so many pieces that when the last one is finally locked into place, not only is the reader relieved finally to see the big picture, but the revelation is truly original and surprising.