Gone Girl

Gone Girl (2012) by Gillian Flynn. Nick and Amy Dunne are happily married, or so it seems. Then one day, on their fifth anniversary, Amy disappears. Naturally, suspicion falls on Nick. Did he kill his beautiful wife? All the clues point to him, but one thing is missing: Amy's body. At first, I sympathized with Nick, but the more I read, the more I began to suspect that maybe he really did kill her. That was just Part One of the book. In Part Two, everything changes, and numerous twists and turns are added to the story. If you like this kind of book, this one is nearly perfect -- a psychological thriller that keeps up the pressure until the very end. Personally, I didn't care for it much. It started to feel more and more contrived as time went on, and by the end of the book I felt I had been manipulated to within an inch of my life.
Grade: B