Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, Héloise Esquié

After Sharp Objects and Dark Places, the most "literary" of thriller authors offers us a diabolical suspense. Prepare for delicious hours of dread!

"What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What awaits us? So many questions that, I suppose, loom over all marriages, like threatening clouds."

Amy, a beautiful young housewife, and her husband Charlie, a bar owner, appear to be a perfect couple. They left New York two years earlier to move to the small Mississippi River town where Charlie grew up. On their fifth wedding anniversary, returning home from work, Charlie discovers indescribable chaos in their house: overturned furniture, broken picture frames on the walls, and no trace of his wife. Something serious has happened. After he calls the police to report Amy's disappearance, the situation takes an unexpected turn. Every small secret, cowardice, and daily betrayal in the couple's life begins to take on unexpected importance under the merciless eyes of the police, and Charlie quickly becomes an ideal suspect. As he desperately tries to find Amy, he discovers that she, too, was hiding many things from her spouse, some trivial and others more unsettling. While their marriage was not as perfect as it seemed, Charlie is still far from suspecting just how much their supposedly ideal couple was merely an illusion.

Considered by unanimous critics as one of the most original voices in contemporary thrillers, Gillian Flynn masterfully dissects conjugal life and its vicissitudes, offering us a paranoid symphony with multiple twists, in a visceral style whose intensity provokes an almost unprecedented anxiety in the world of thrillers.

About Sharp Objects: "To say it's an exceptional novel, yes, very good, but it's not enough. I think, believe me if you want, that I haven't read such a disturbing thriller in years." Stephen King