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Gillian Flynn

    24 febbraio 1971

    Gillian Flynn è un'autrice americana le cui opere si addentrano negli aspetti più oscuri della psiche umana e delle relazioni. Le sue suspense narrative spesso esplorano famiglie disfunzionali, violenza e autolesionismo, attirando i lettori in intricati misteri. Flynn eccelle nel creare suspense e nel forgiare personaggi memorabili, sebbene inquietanti, che risuonano con il pubblico per il loro crudo realismo. Il suo stile è tagliente e penetrante, il che la rende una voce significativa nella narrativa contemporanea.

    Gillian Flynn
    I'll Be Gone in the Dark
    The Grownup
    The Gillian Flynn Collection
    Nei luoghi oscuri
    L'amore bugiardo
    Rizzoli narrativa: Sharp Objects
    • Rizzoli narrativa: Sharp Objects

      • 346pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, 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 in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

      Rizzoli narrativa: Sharp Objects
      4,1
    • L'amore bugiardo

      • 542pagine
      • 19 ore di lettura

      Amy e Nick si incontrano a una festa in una gelida sera di gennaio. È subito amore. Lui la conquista con il sorriso sornione e l’accento ondulato del Missouri. Lei è la ragazza perfetta, bella e spigliata. Sono felici, pieni di futuro. Qualche anno dopo però tutto è cambiato. Da Brooklyn a North Carthage, Missouri. Da giovani in carriera a coppia alla deriva. Amy e Nick hanno perso il lavoro e sono costretti a reinventarsi: lui proprietario di un bar accanto alla sorella Margo, lei casalinga in una città di provincia. Fino a che, la mattina del loro quinto anniversario, Amy scompare. È in quel momento, con le tracce di sangue e i segni di colluttazione a sfregiare la simmetria del salotto, che la vera storia del matrimonio di Amy e Nick ha inizio. Che fine ha fatto Amy? Quale segreto nasconde il diario che teneva con cura? Chi è davvero Nick Dunne? Un marito devoto schiacciato dall’angoscia, o un cinico mentitore e violento, forse addirittura un assassino? Raccontato dalle voci alternate di Nick e Amy, L’amore bugiardo è una vertiginosa incursione nel lato oscuro del matrimonio. Un romanzo, costruito su rovesciamenti e colpi di scena, che vi costringerà a domandarvi se conoscete davvero la persona che vi dorme accanto.

      L'amore bugiardo
      4,1
    • Libby Day hétéves volt, amikor az anyját és két nővérét meggyilkolták a kansasi Kinnakee-ben. Libby túlélte a mészárlást, és vallomásában azt állította, hogy tizenöt éves bátyja, Ben volt a tettes. Huszonöt évvel később a Gyilkosok Klubja – egy hírhedt bűnügyekkel foglalkozó titkos társaság – felkeresi Libbyt, hogy bizonyítékot találjanak Ben ártatlanságára. Libby anyagi haszon reményében együttműködik velük: felkeresi azokat, akik akkor éjjel ott voltak a házukban, és beszámol a klubtagoknak mindarról, amit megtud. A nyomozás során lepusztult sztriptízbárokban és elhagyatott városokban keresi az igazságot, és miközben lassan fény derül az elképzelhetetlenre, ugyanabba a helyzetbe kerül, mint amikor minden elkezdődött: újra egy gyilkos elől menekül.

      Nei luoghi oscuri
      4,0
    • The Gillian Flynn Collection

      Dark Places - Sharp Objects - Gone Girl

      All of Gillian Flynn's stylish thrillers brought together for the first time. The ultimate gift for fans of the bestselling phenomenon, GONE GIRL.

      The Gillian Flynn Collection
      4,4
    • The Grownup

      • 79pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura

      A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (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. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural. However when she enters the house for the first time, she begins to feel it too, as if the very house is watching her, waiting, biding its time . . . The Grownup, which originally appeared as 'What Do You Do?' in George R. R. Martin's Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world's most original and skilled voices in fiction.

      The Grownup
      3,6
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      A haunting true story of a serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California in the 70s and 80s, this narrative follows the gifted journalist who tragically died while investigating the case, which was ultimately solved in April 2018. The work is introduced by Gillian Flynn and features an afterword by Patton Oswalt. For over a decade, a violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California and ten sadistic murders in Southern California, eluding capture by multiple police forces and top detectives. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara, creator of TrueCrimeDiary.com, became determined to find the psychopath she named "the Golden State Killer." She meticulously examined police reports, interviewed victims, and engaged with online communities obsessed with the case. The masterpiece she was writing at the time of her sudden death offers a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the devastation he caused, while also portraying McNamara’s obsession and relentless pursuit of the truth. This utterly original and compelling work has been hailed as a modern true crime classic, fulfilling Michelle's dream of helping to unmask the Golden State Killer.

      I'll Be Gone in the Dark
      4,3
    • THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD!'Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing' Gillian Flynn'One of those rare books that really is unputdownable' Stephen King'Twisted to the power of max' Val McDermid'A dark, twisty confection' Ruth Ware What did she see? It's been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A picture-perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers. But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. Now she must do everything she can to uncover the truth about what really happened. But even if she does, will anyone believe her? And can she even trust herself?

      The woman in the window
      3,9