Moderator---Judy
Meet Libby Day. At age 7, she and her older brother Ben survive their family being massacred. Ben, though, is the one tried and convicted for the murders. Now in her early 30's, Libby has no money and no prospects. Before there was 'GoFundMe', people would just donate money to trust funds set up for orphaned children like Libby. When the child became yesterday's news--so did the donations. And now the trust fund for Libby is empty.
Enter the Kill Club--a group dedicated to dissecting old cases including the murders of the Day family. The group doesn't believe Ben did this and offer money to Libby to help find who really is to blame. Libby needs the money so she agrees to snoop around and look again at the case as an adult--not the 7 year old girl who testified against her brother. The story alternates between the time of the murders and the present.
Gillian Flynn has become a household name. Gone Girl was the novel that introduced most of us to her. Both that book and the subsequent movie were blockbusters. Dark Places was an earlier work. It was published in 2009 and briefly on the New York Times Best Seller List. It won the Dark Scribe Magazine Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. But now it is getting a second look. It has been made into a movie starring Charlize Theron. (Look for the author's cameo role in the film.)
Food:
Loaded Subway sandwiches, chips and Dead Debbie snack cakes
"Fasten your seat belts, you are in for a bumpy ride."---Judy "No need for likeable characters to like this book."---Dee Dee
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