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Sharp objects : a novel / Gillian Flynn.

by Flynn, Gillian, 1971-

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Shaye Areheart Books, c2006.

Women journalists -- Fiction.

Self-mutilation -- Fiction.

Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- Fiction.

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.

Missouri -- Fiction.

9780307341556 (2012 Broadway trade pbk.)

9780525575740 (2018 Broadwaym Books movie tie trade pbk.)

9780525575757 (2018 Broadway Books movie tie-in pbk.)

254 p. ; 24 cm.

"WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory. HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims - a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming."--Inside jacket.

Winner of the Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year, 2007.

Suspense fiction.

Psychological thriller.

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