Sharp Objects/Gillian Flynn/254 pgs.

My first Gillian Flynn book was Gone Girl, so I wanted to see if any of her other books featured dysfunctional characters; in a word, the answer is "yes!" In Sharp Objects, Camille Preaker is a reporter on a small newspaper in Chicago. Her boss wants her to return to her hometown, Wind Gap, MO, to write about the murder of two young girls that has taken place in the past year. In typical Flynn fashion, Camille's family is a whole bunch of dysfunctional. Family "secrets" are exposed in the search to discover who murdered the young girls. The novel is told in Camille's voice, which makes for some very uncomfortable reading--and yet, I just had to see how the book ended! It's a pretty disturbing book, but it was interesting to read a predecessor to Gone Girl.