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Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, *New York Times* bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The *Chicago Tribune* proclaimed that her work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.” *Gone Girl* ’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. 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 from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge **.** Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet? With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around. ### Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick’s wife Amy disappears. There are signs of struggle in the house, and Nick quickly becomes the prime suspect. It doesn’t help that Nick hasn’t been completely honest with the police, and, as Amy’s case drags out for weeks, more and more vilifying evidence appears against him--but Nick maintains his innocence. Alternating points of view between Nick and Amy, Gillian Flynn creates an untrustworthy world that changes from chapter to chapter. Calling *Gone Girl* a psychological thriller is an understatement. As revelation after revelation unfolds, it becomes clear that the truth does not exist in the middle of Nick and Amy’s points of view; it is far darker, more twisted, and creepier than you can imagine. *Gone Girl* is masterfully plotted, and the suspense doesn’t waver for a single page. It’s one of those books you will feel the need to discuss as soon as you finish it, because the ending doesn’t just come--it punches you in the gut. -- *Caley Anderson* #### From Author Gillian Flynn You might say I specialize in difficult characters. Damaged, disturbed, or downright nasty. Personally, I love each and every one of the misfits, losers, and outcasts in my three novels. My supporting characters are meth tweakers, truck-stop strippers, backwoods grifters ... But it's my narrators who are the real challenge. In *Sharp Objects,* Camille Preaker is a mediocre journalist fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital. She's an alcoholic. She's got impulse issues. She's also incredibly lonely. Her best friend is her boss. When she returns to her hometown to investigate a child murder, she parks down the street from her mother's house "so as to seem less obtrusive." She has no sense of whom to trust, and this leads to disaster. Camille is cut off from the world but would rather not be. In *Dark Places,* narrator Libby Day is aggressively lonely. She cultivates her isolation. She lives off a trust fund established for her as a child when her family was massacred; she isn't particularly grateful for it. She's a liar, a manipulator, a kleptomaniac. "I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ," she warns. "Draw a picture of my soul and it'd be a scribble with fangs." If Camille is overly grateful when people want to befriend her, Libby's first instinct is to kick them in their shins. In those first two novels, I explored the geography of loneliness--and the devastation it can lead to. With *Gone Girl,* I wanted to go the opposite direction: what happens when two people intertwine their lives completely.I wanted to explore the geography of intimacy--and the devastation it can lead to. Marriage gone toxic. *Gone Girl* opens on the occasion of Amy and Nick Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. (How romantic.) Amy disappears under very disturbing circumstances. (Less romantic.) Nick and Amy Dunne were the golden couple when they first began their courtship. Soul mates. They could complete each other's sentences, guess each other's reactions. They could push each other's buttons. They are smart, charming, gorgeous, and also narcissistic, selfish, and cruel. They complete each other--in a very dangerous way. ### Review "Ice-pick-sharp... Spectacularly sneaky... Impressively cagey... "Gone Girl" is Ms. Flynn's dazzling breakthrough. It is wily, mercurial, subtly layered and populated by characters so well imagined that they're hard to part with -- even if, as in Amy's case, they are already departed. And if you have any doubts about whether Ms. Flynn measures up to Patricia Highsmith's level of discreet malice, go back and look at the small details. Whatever you raced past on a first reading will look completely different the second time around." --Janet Maslin, "New York Times ""An ingenious and viperish thriller... It's going to make Gillian Flynn a star... The first half of "Gone Girl" is a nimble, caustic riff on our Nancy Grace culture and the way in which ''The butler did it'' has morphed into ''The husband did it.'' The second half is the real stunner, though. Now I really am going to shut up before I spoil what instantly shifts into a great, breathless read. Even as "Gone Girl" grows truly twisted and wild, it says smart things about how tenuous power relations are between men and women, and how often couples are at the mercy of forces beyond their control. As if that weren't enough, Flynn has created a genuinely creepy villain you don't see coming. People love to talk about the banality of evil. You're about to meet a maniac you could fall in love with. A" "--"Jeff Giles, "Entertainment Weekly " "An irresistible summer thriller with a twisting plot worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. Burrowing deep into the murkiest corners of the human psyche, this delectable summer read will give you the creeps and keep you on edge until the last page." "--People" (four stars) "[A] thoroughbred thriller about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships. "Gone Girl" begins as a whodunit, but by the end it will have you wondering whether there's any such thing as a who at all." "--"Lev Grossman, "Time"

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A

LSO BY

G

ILLIAN

F

LYNN

Dark Places

Sharp Objects

This author is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact the Random House Speakers Bureau at rhspeakers@randomhouse.comor (212) 572-2013.

http://www.rhspeakers.com/

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Gillian Flynn

Excerpt from “Dark Places” copyright © 2009 by Gillian Flynn

Excerpt from “Sharp Objects” copyright © 2006 by Gillian Flynn

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Flynn, Gillian, 1971–

Gone girl : a novel / Gillian Flynn.

p. cm.

1. Husbands—Fiction. 2. Married people—Fiction. 3. Wives—Crimes against—Fiction. I. Title. PS3606.L935G66 2012

813’.6—dc23 2011041525

eISBN: 978-0-307-58838-8

JACKET DESIGN BY DARREN HAGGAR

JACKET PHOTOGRAPH BY BERND OTT

v3.1_r5

To Brett: light of my life, senior

and

Flynn: light of my life, junior

Love is the world’s infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.

—Tony Kushner, THE ILLUSION

Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Part One: Boy Loses Girl

Nick Dunne: The Day of

Amy Elliott: January 8, 2005

Nick Dunne: The Day of

Amy Elliott: September 18, 2005

Nick Dunne: The Day of

Amy Elliott Dunne: July 5, 2008

Nick Dunne: The Night of

Amy Elliott Dunne: April 21, 2009

Nick Dunne: One Day Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: July 5, 2010

Nick Dunne: One Day Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: August 23, 2010

Nick Dunne: Two Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: September 15, 2010

Nick Dunne: Three Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: October 16, 2010

Nick Dunne: Four Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: April 28, 2011

Nick Dunne: Four Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: July 21, 2011

Nick Dunne: Five Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: August 17, 2011

Nick Dunne: Five Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: October 21, 2011

Nick Dunne: Six Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: February 15, 2012

Nick Dunne: Six Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: June 26, 2012

Nick Dunne: Seven Days Gone

Part Two: Boy Meets Girl

Amy Elliott Dunne: The Day of

Nick Dunne: Seven Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: The Day of

Nick Dunne: Seven Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Five Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Eight Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Seven Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Eight Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Eight Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Eight Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Nine Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Nine Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Nine Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Ten Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Ten Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Ten Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Ten Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Ten Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Eleven Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Fourteen Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Twenty-six Days Gone

Nick Dunne: Thirty-three Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: Forty Days Gone

Part Three: Boy Gets Girl Back (Or Vice Versa)

Nick Dunne: Forty Days Gone

Amy Elliott Dunne: The Night of the Return

Nick Dunne: The Night of the Return

Amy Elliott Dunne: The Night of the Return

Nick Dunne: The Night of the Return

Amy Elliott Dunne: Five Days After the Return

Nick Dunne: Thirty Days After the Return

Amy Elliott Dunne: Eight Weeks After the Return

Nick Dunne: Nine Weeks After the Return

Amy Elliott Dunne: Ten Weeks After the Return

Nick Dunne: Twenty Weeks After the Return

Amy Elliott Dunne: Ten Months, Two Weeks, Six Days After the Return

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Excerpt from Sharp Objects

Excerpt from Dark Places

part one BOY LOSES GIRL

NICK DUNNE

THE DAY OF

When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. The shape of it, to begin with. The very first time I saw her, it was the back of the head I saw, and there was something lovely about it, the angles of it. Like a shiny, hard corn kernel or a riverbed fossil. She had what the Victorians would call a finely shaped head . You could imagine the skull quite easily.

I’d know her head anywhere.

And what’s inside it. I think of that too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve 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?

My eyes flipped open at exactly six A.M. This was no avian fluttering of the lashes, no gentle blink toward consciousness. The awakening was mechanical. A spooky ventriloquist-dummy click of the lids: The world is black and then, showtime! 6-0-0 the clock said—in my face, first thing I saw. 6-0-0. It felt different. I rarely woke at such a rounded time. I was a man of jagged risings: 8:43, 11:51, 9:26. My life was alarmless.

At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen .

I wallowed in bed, which was our New York bed in our new house, which we still called the new house , even though we’d been back here for two years. It’s a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town. The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would—and did—detest.

“Should I remove my soul before I come inside?” Her first line upon arrival. It had been a compromise: Amy demanded we rent, not buy, in my little Missouri hometown, in her firm hope that we wouldn’t be stuck here long. But the only houses for rent were clustered in this failed development: a miniature ghost town of bank-owned, recession-busted, price-reduced mansions, a neighborhood that closed before it ever opened. It was a compromise, but Amy didn’t see it that way, not in the least. To Amy, it was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife. I would drag her, caveman-style, to a town she had aggressively avoided, and make her live in the kind of house she used to mock. I suppose it’s not a compromise if only one of you considers it such, but that was what our compromises tended to look like. One of us was always angry. Amy, usually.

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