Dark Places
- 368
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- Film 2015
- On screen
- NYT bestseller · 16 weeks on the list, peaked at #7
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Our view
“Dark Places” rations its information so carefully that the outcome is hard to foresee. It alternates between Libby, a survivor of the massacre of her family, and the hours leading up to that night. The characters are damaged, sharply drawn people, and the poverty of rural America is as much a subject as the crime. An unrelentingly bleak read, too bleak for some, though others rank it highest among Flynn’s novels.
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About the book
Dark Places is a mystery novel by Gillian Flynn published in 2009. The novel deals with class issues in rural America, intense poverty and the Satanic cult hysteria that swept the United States in the 1980s. Dark Places was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and won Dark Scribe Magazine's Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. It was also listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for two consecutive weeks. A film adaptation of the novel starring Charlize Theron was released on August 7, 2015.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmDark PlacesIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 942 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 87% of the weight and the score stays at 7.5 — the Thriller average of 7.6 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 44 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 898 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Dark Places?
It has 368 pages — shorter than 67% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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