Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

On the surface, Nick and Amy appear to have the perfect marriage.

In the small town of North Carthage, Missouri during the summer of 2012, Amy Dunne disappears. Specifically, on the day of Nick and Amy’s fifth wedding anniversary. When Amy vanishes into what seems to be thin air, Nick is left as suspect number one.

Nick, a small town boy from Missouri making it as a writer in New York, meets Amy and the rest is history. They sweep each other into a dreamy whirlwind until reality strikes and they both lose their jobs, leading them to Nick’s hometown. Continue reading “Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl” →

Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

Imagine putting your toddler son to sleep, then waking up in the morning to find him missing from his bed. The baby monitor conveniently ran out of batteries a couple of days ago, and there is no evidence of a break-in besides an open window and a footprint outside. The police found his stuffed animal near a marsh. All the evidence points to the suspicion that it was an insider job. You feel like something is off. Something is missing from your memories. Something important. Something about yourself that could change the trajectory of the case. Continue reading “Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things” →

Greg Iles, True Evil

Plot Summary:

True Evil by Greg Iles is a psychological crime thriller. The novel follows Dr. Chris Shepard, a man with the perfect wife, a beautiful child, and his own practice. Everything is perfect, except for the fact that his wife is plotting his murder. FBI Agent Alexandra Morse discovered that a local divorce attorney named Andrew Rusk has a trail of clients whose spouses died from seemingly natural causes, not long after meeting with him. One of those clients happened to be Agent Morse’s own brother-in-law – and now her sister is dead. Special Agent Morse is on a warpath to solve this mystery, and in doing so tells Dr. Shepard of his wife’s murder plot. Will Dr. Shepard help Agent Morse on her investigation, or will he ignore the signs and become the next victim in this bone- chilling murder plot? Continue reading “Greg Iles, True Evil” →