Sharp Objects

What our staff have to say:

"A reporter goes back to her hometown to investigate a series of unexplained murders in this debut novel by the author of Gone Girl. No matter how many times I revisit this, I have the same feeling of creeping creeping dread—one of my favourite crime novels ever written."

— Nirica

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story and survive this homecoming.