Gillian Flynn's latest novel was mentioned on one of Sheila Rogers' programs, and I searched her name in the library and found this title, her first crime novel. I read it in three days - in between finishing off the Elvis bio, which I found hard reading for any great length of time.
It ends up this book may well serve as an interesting possibility for discussion when we have the Mother-Daughter theme next year. Camille, who writes for a little-known Chicago paper, is sent back to her small home town in the south to investigate the possibility of a serial murderer: two young girls have been murdered a year apart, but found in similar circumstances - their teeth had been pulled out after death. Camille's mother, Adora, is a central character in the book, and not likeable at all, and neither is Camille's young step-sister, Amma, who is only 13 buts acts like she's 25. Camille herself has her own problems as a result of her lifelong alienation from her mother - she never knew her father, she lost her younger sister Marian to illness, and she has been a lifelong cutter - at this point she's not cutting any more simply because there's nowhere else to cut, but she does write all over herself!
Weird, but an easy enough read - I prefer the more old-fashioned bullets or knives for murder weapons, and there's a lot of drug stuff going on, but hey- that's the world today. And the word "computer" is never even mentioned!!
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