Dark Places

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Gillian Flynn

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Flynn, Gillian, 1971–

Dark places / Gillian Flynn.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Children of murder victims—Fiction. 2. Family—Crimes against—

Fiction. 3. Juvenile homicide—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction.

5. Kansas City (Mo.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3606.L935D37 2009

813′.6—dc22 2008040244

eISBN: 978-0-307-45992-3

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