Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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“Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn is a rollercoaster of a mystery book that will have the reader turning on characters they thought they trusted to learn that, more than any book, this one screams you never truly know anyone.

The book begins by welcoming readers into the lives of the seemingly happily married couple, Nick and Amy Dunne. But as we turn the pages, we peel back the layers to find that their marriage is actually rotting from the inside.

It was love at first sight for these two and they married not long after they met, buying an apartment in New York where Nick works as a retired-journalist-turned-professor. When Nick loses his job, the couple is wrenched from their idyllic life and have no other choice but to live in Nick’s small Missouri hometown (much to Nick’s chagrin and Amy’s resistance). This upheaval leads to heated arguments and infidelity galore until, one afternoon, Amy simply disappears.

Alternating between Amy’s emotional and distressed diary entries to Nick’s confused and narrator-like perspective, “Gone Girl” is a book brimming with every twist and turn imaginable as it toys with the reader’s sympathy and constructs a sense of security that crumbles spectacularly. Readers are left to pick up the pieces and assemble a story so diabolical that it’s pure genius.