Friday Finds: Dark Places

Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading. Here’s my one find:



Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn

Here’s the blurb from Barnes & Noble:

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.” Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived–and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who’ve long forgotten her.

The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details–proof they hope may free Ben–Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe she’ll admit her testimony wasn’t so solid after all. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985.

The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby’s doomed family members–including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started–on the run from a killer.

This one sounds like a real page turner. I wonder when I will be able to read it.

Sigh.

Slowly catching up. Two more reviews that I’ve committed to and I’m good.

GIVEAWAY! Love & Biology at the Center of the Universe

UPDATE: This Giveaway is now closed!! Thanks!

Have you read Love & Biology at the Center of the Universe? No? Would you like to? Jennie Shortridge provided me with a SIGNED copy of her book to giveaway to one of my readers. If you need more info on the book before entering this contest then click here for my review.

Giveaway Details:

This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada. There are THREE ways to enter. Please follow the instructions carefully because I want every entry to count!

1. Post a comment for ONE entry.

2. For another entry, Tweet about this giveaway and be sure to include @TiBookChatter so I can track it. After you Tweet, post a comment here telling me you did so. This must be a separate comment.

3. For another entry, blog about it (no sidebars please). Be sure to leave me a comment with a link to your post.

This giveaway will run until Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10pm (PDT). The winner will be selected randomly and announced on Friday, May 29, 2009. I will contact the winner for his/her mailing address so be sure to include a way for me to contact you.

Good luck!!!

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