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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
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Literature, Families, Brothers and sisters, Family, Crimes against, Fiction, Children of murder victims, Thriller, Juvenile homicide, Homicide, Mystery fiction, Siblings, Children, Victims of crimes, Large type books, Thrillers, Women Sleuths, Suspense, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2014-10-19, New York Times bestseller, Hermanos, Familias, Homicidio, Víctimas de delitos, Delitos en contra, Novela policíaca, Ficción, Fiction, suspense, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Kansas city (mo.), fiction, Crime, fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2012-09-02, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2014-11-23, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Siblings, fiction, Enfants de victimes d'homicide, Romans, nouvelles, Familles, Crimes contre, Homicide par des jeunes, Frères et sœursPlaces
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Lugares oscuros
2016, Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
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Dark Places
2016-01-14, W&N, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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2014, Znak Literanova, Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak
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Translation of: Dark places.
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Libby Day tinha apenas sete anos quando testemunhou o brutal assassinato da mãe e das duas irmãs na fazenda da família. O acusado do crime foi seu irmão mais velho, que acabou condenado à prisão perpétua.
Desde aquele dia, Libby passou a viver sem rumo. Uma vida paralisada no tempo, sem amigos, família ou trabalho. Mas, vinte e quatro anos depois, quando é procurada por um grupo de pessoas convencidas da inocência de seu irmão, Libby começa a se fazer as perguntas que até então nunca ousara formular. Será que a voz que ouviu naquela noite era mesmo a do irmão? Ben era considerado um desajustado na pequena cidade em que viviam, mas ele seria mesmo capaz de matar? Existiria algum segredo por trás daqueles assassinatos?
Gillian Flynn intercala a trajetória detetivesca de Libby com flashbacks dos acontecimentos do dia dos crimes com tanta habilidade que o leitor é levado a diferentes direções. Escrito com primor, Lugares escuros não só mostra como a memória é passível de falhas, mas também evidencia as mentiras que uma criança pode contar a si mesma para superar um trauma.
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