Description: "Ice-pick-sharp Spectacularly sneaky Impressively cagey Gone Girl is Ms. Flynn's dazzling breakthrough. It is wily, mercurial, subtly layered and populated by characters so well imagined that they're hard to part with - even if, as in Amy's case, they are already departed. And if you have any doubts about whether Ms. Flynn measures up to Patricia Highsmith's level of discreet malice, go back and look at the small details. Whatever you raced past on a first reading will look completely different the second time around." -Janet Maslin, New York Times "An ingenious and viperish thriller It's going to make Gillian Flynn a star The first half of Gone Girl is a nimble, caustic riff on our Nancy Grace culture and the way in which ''''The butler did it'''' has morphed into ''''The husband did it.'''' The second half is the real stunner, though. Now I really am going to shut up before I spoil what instantly shifts into a great, breathless read. Even as Gone Girl grows truly twisted and wild, it says smart things about how tenuous power relations are between men and women, and how often couples are at the mercy of forces beyond their control. As if that weren't enough, Flynn has created a genuinely creepy villain you don''t see coming. People love to talk about the banality of evil. You're about to meet a maniac you could fall in love with." - Jeff Giles, Entertainment Weekly "An irresistible summer thriller with a twisting plot worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. Burrowing deep into the murkiest corners of the human psyche, this delectable summer read will give you the creeps and keep you on edge until the last page." -People (four stars) "[A] thoroughbred thriller about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships. Gone Girl begins as a whodunit, but by the end it will have you wondering whether there's any such thing as a who at all." - Lev Grossman, Time "How did things get so bad? That's the reason to read this book. Gillian Flynn - whose award-winning Dark Places and Sharp Objects also shone a dark light on weird and creepy, not to mention uber dysfunctional characters - delves this time into what happens when two people marry and one spouse has no idea who their beloved really is." - USA Today, Carol Memmott "It's simply fantastic: terrifying, darkly funny and at times moving. The minute I finished it I wanted to start it all over again. Admirers of Gillian Flynn's previous books, Sharp Objects and Dark Places , will be ecstatic over Gone Girl , her most intricately twisted and deliciously sinister story, dangerous for any reader who prefers to savor a novel as opposed to consuming it whole in one sitting." - Associated Press, Michelle Weiner "Gillian Flynn's third novel is both breakneck-paced thriller and masterful dissection of marital breakdown Wickedly plotted and surprisingly thoughtful, this is a terrifically good read." - Boston Globe "That adage of no one knows what goes on behind closed doors moves the plot of Gone Girl , Gillian Flynn''s suspenseful psychological thriller Flynn''s unpredictable plot of Gone Girl careens down an emotional highway where this couple dissects their marriage with sharp acumen Flynn has shown her skills at gripping tales and enhanced character studies since her debut Sharp Objects , which garnered an Edgar nod, among other nominations. Her second novel Dark Places made numerous best of lists. Gone Girl reaffirms her talent." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel , Oline Cogdill "A great crime novel, however, is an unstable thing, entertainment and literature suspended in some undetermined solution. Take Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl , the third novel by one of a trio of contemporary women writers (the others are Kate Atkinson and Tana French) who are kicking the genre into a higher gear You couldn't say that this is a crime novel that's ultimately about a marriage, which would make it a literary novel in disguise. The crime and the marriage are inseparable. As Gone Girl works itself up into an aria of ingenious, pitch-black comedy (or comedic horror - it's a bit of both), its very outlandishness teases out a truth about all magnificent partnerships: Sometimes it's your enemy who brings out the best in you, and in such cases, you want to keep him close." - Salon "Ms. Flynn writes dark suspense novels that anatomize violence without splashing barrels of blood around the pages But as in her other books, Ms. Flynn has much more up her sleeve than a simple missing-person case. As Nick and Amy''s alternately tell their stories, marriage has never looked so menacing, narrators so unreliable." - Wall Street Journal "A portrait of a marriage so hilariously terrifying, it will make you have a good hard think about who the person on the other side of the bed really is. This novel is so bogglingly twisty, we can only give you the initial premise: on their fifth anniversary, Nick Dunne's beloved wife Amy disappears, and all signs point to very foul play indeed. Nick has to clear his name before the police finger him for Amy's murder." - Time "Readers who prefer more virulent strains of unreality will appreciate the sneaky mind games of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl , a thriller rooted in the portrait of a tricky and troubled marriage." - New York Times "[Flynn has] quite outdone herself with a tale of marital strife so deliciously devious that it moves the finish line on The War of the Roses A novel studded with disclosures and guided by purposeful misdirection Flynn delivers a wickedly clever cultural commentary as well as a complex and driven mystery What fun this novel is." - New York Daily News "Flynn's brilliantly constructed and consistently absorbing third novel begins on the Dunnes' fifth wedding anniversary The novel, which twists itself into new shapes, works as a page-turning thriller, but it's also a study of marriage at its most destructive." - Columbus Dispatch "Gillian Flynn''s barbed and brilliant Gone Girl has two deceitful, disturbing, irresistible narrators and a plot that twists so many times you''ll be dizzy. This "catastrophically romantic" story about Nick and Amy is a "fairy tale reverse transformation" that reminded me of Patricia Highsmith in its psychological suspense and Kate Atkinson in its insanely clever plotting." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune "For a creepy, suspenseful mystery, Ms. Pearl suggested Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, a novel due out this week. "You will not be able to figure out the end at all. I could not sleep the night after I read it. It''s really good," Ms. [Nancy] Pearl said. "It''s about the way we deceive ourselves and deceive others."" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Gil