Gone Girl / Gillilan Flynn / 419 pages

Nick Dunne Giving Treed Amy Elliott Dune, his wife, at least according to Amy.  When they both lost their jobs in New York, Nick moved them back to Carthage, Missouri to care for his cancer ridden mother and his Alzheimer's afflicted father.  Amy, whose psychologist parents wrote the Amazing Amy children's books, grew up as only well-to-do child. Now near penniless, almost friendless, and without a job, she discovers that Nick has a mistress.  She decides to fake her own death and to stage clues that point to Nick as the murderer.  What a harrowing tale of depravity and man's inhumanity to man, with undertones of the psychological underpinnings of relationship!