Dark Places

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Dark Places is a 2009 psychological thriller novel by Gillian Flynn that follows a woman reexamining the childhood massacre of her family and the possibility that her imprisoned brother may be innocent.

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instanceOf film
novel
psychological thriller novel
adaptedInto Dark Places (film) NERFINISHED
author Gillian Flynn NERFINISHED
basedOn Dark Places NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Gilles Paquet-Brenner NERFINISHED
featuresTheme family violence
media sensationalism
memory and trauma
poverty and rural hardship
satanic panic
followedBy Gone Girl NERFINISHED
genre mystery fiction
psychological thriller
hasAwardNomination 2010 Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel NERFINISHED
hasCharacter Ben Day NERFINISHED
Patty Day NERFINISHED
hasMainCharacter Libby Day NERFINISHED
hasSubgenre crime fiction
domestic noir
isbn10 0307341569
isbn13 9780307341563
language English
marketedAs adult fiction
mediaType print
narrativeStructure nonlinear timeline
notableFor depiction of satanic ritual abuse hysteria in the 1980s United States
unreliable memories of a child witness
originalTitle Dark Places NERFINISHED
pageCount approximately 350 pages
plotFocus investigation of a possibly wrongful conviction
reexamination of a family massacre
precededBy Sharp Objects NERFINISHED
protagonistAgeAtPresentTimeline early thirties
protagonistOccupation unemployed drifter
publicationDate 2009
publisher Crown Publishing Group NERFINISHED
releaseYear 2015
setting Kansas NERFINISHED
Midwestern United States NERFINISHED
stars Charlize Theron NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfEvents 1985
approximately 24 years after the massacre
toldFromPerspective first-person perspective of Libby Day
third-person perspectives of Patty Day and Ben Day

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