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Gillian Flynn

    24 de febrero de 1971

    Gillian Flynn es una autora estadounidense cuyas obras se adentran en los aspectos más oscuros de la psique humana y las relaciones. Sus narrativas de suspense a menudo exploran familias disfuncionales, la violencia y la autolesión, atrayendo a los lectores hacia complejos misterios. Flynn sobresale en la creación de tensión y en la elaboración de personajes memorables, aunque inquietantes, que resuenan con el público por su crudo realismo. Su estilo es agudo e incisivo, lo que la convierte en una voz importante en la ficción contemporánea.

    Gillian Flynn
    The Demonologist
    Dark Places
    Sharp objects
    The Gillian Flynn Collection
    El Adulto
    Perdida
    • Gillian Flynn retrata el mundo claustrofóbico de un matrimonio que hace aguas. En un cálido día de verano Amy y Nick se disponen a celebrar su aniversario de bodas en Misouri. Como cada año, Nick espera hasta el último minuto para comprarle el regalo a Amy. No obstante, no va a hacer falta, puesto que Amy desaparece esa misma mañana sin dejar rastro. En el salón de su casa aparecen claras muestras de un forcejeo y la policía se pone a investigar de inmediato. Enseguida quedan desconcertados por la actitud de Nick: tan sereno que parece no importarle la desaparición de su mujer. Inevitablemente, pues, las sospechan recaen sobre él, pese a que mantiene su inocencia.

      Perdida
      4,1
    • El Adulto

      • 80 páginas
      • 3 horas de lectura

      Una joven se gana la vida fingiendo ser una vidente a precio rebajado (con algún trabajo de sexo soft-core aparte). La mujer gana un sueldo decente por decirle a la gente lo que quiere oír. Pero entonces conoce a Susan Burke. Susan se mudó a la cuidad hace un año con su marido y su hijastro de 15 años, Miles. Viven en una casa victoriana llamada Carterhook Manor. Susan ha empezado a convencerse de que algún espíritu maligno está viviendo en su casa. La joven no cree en exorcismos o en lo sobrenatural. Sin embargo, cuando entra en la casa por primera vez, también comienza a sentirlo, como si la propia casa la observara, esperando, aguardando su momento... The Grownup, que originalmente apareció como "What Do You Do?" en la antología de historias cortas, Rogues, de George R.R. Martin, prueba una vez más que Gillian Flynn es una de las voces más originales y hábiles en ficción del mundo.

      El Adulto
      3,6
    • The Gillian Flynn Collection

      Dark Places - Sharp Objects - Gone Girl

      All of Gillian Flynn's stylish thrillers brought together for the first time. The ultimate gift for fans of the bestselling phenomenon, GONE GIRL.

      The Gillian Flynn Collection
      4,4
    • Sharp objects

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      The breakout first novel by the blockbuster bestselling author of "Gone Girl" is now the basis for an eight-part HBO series starring Amy Adams, scheduled to begin airing this summer. Reissue.

      Sharp objects
      4,1
    • Dark Places

      • 424 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away . . . the gripping second novel from the author of the mega-bestselling GONE GIRL. Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over 20 years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary gathering. The Kill Club is a group of true-crime obsessives who share information on notorious murders, and they think her brother Ben is innocent. Ben was a social misfit, ground down by the small-town farming community in which he lived. But he did have a girlfriend - a brooding heavy metal fan called Diondra. Through her, Ben became involved with drugs and the dark arts. When the town suddenly turned against him, his thoughts turned black. But was he capable of murder? Libby must delve into her family's past to uncover the truth - no matter how painful...

      Dark Places
      4,0
    • The Demonologist

      • 285 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      The desperate search for his missing daughter will take a father to hell and back...Professor David Ullman is among the world's leading authorities on demonic literature. Not that he's a believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination and nothing more. So when offered a luxury trip to Venice to consult on a 'phenomenon', he accepts, taking his 11-year-old daughter Tess with him.Amidst the decadent splendour of the city, David makes his way to the address he's been asked to visit. What he witnesses in the tiny attic room shakes him to the core: a man restrained in a chair, clearly insane. But what David hears the man say is worse. The voice of his father, dead for 30 years, repeating the last words he ever spoke to his son. Words that have left scars - and a mystery - behind.Terrified, David is determined to leave with Tess as quickly as possible. But he can't shake the feeling that something is following him. And then, before his eyes on the roof of their hotel, Tess disappears. But before she falls into the Grand Canal's waters, she utters a plea: Find me.At once frightening and deeply moving, Andrew Pyper's page-turning thriller explores the lengths a father will go to find his daughter, and the darkness he is prepared to confront along the way.

      The Demonologist
      2,9
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      A haunting true story of a serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California in the 70s and 80s, this narrative follows the gifted journalist who tragically died while investigating the case, which was ultimately solved in April 2018. The work is introduced by Gillian Flynn and features an afterword by Patton Oswalt. For over a decade, a violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California and ten sadistic murders in Southern California, eluding capture by multiple police forces and top detectives. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara, creator of TrueCrimeDiary.com, became determined to find the psychopath she named "the Golden State Killer." She meticulously examined police reports, interviewed victims, and engaged with online communities obsessed with the case. The masterpiece she was writing at the time of her sudden death offers a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the devastation he caused, while also portraying McNamara’s obsession and relentless pursuit of the truth. This utterly original and compelling work has been hailed as a modern true crime classic, fulfilling Michelle's dream of helping to unmask the Golden State Killer.

      I'll Be Gone in the Dark
      4,3
    • La mujer en la ventana

      • 544 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      ¿Lo ha visto o lo ha imaginado? Anna Fox vive sola, recluida en su casa de Nueva York, sin atreverse a salir. Pasa el día chateando con desconocidos, bebiendo vino (quizá más de la cuenta), viendo películas antiguas, recordando tiempos felices... y espiando a los vecinos. Entonces llegan los Russell al barrio: una pareja y su hijo adolescente. La familia perfecta. Hasta que una noche Anna ve algo desde su ventana que no debería haber visto. Todo su mundo empieza a resquebrajarse y sus propios secretos salen a la luz. ¿Qué ha visto? ¿Y qué ha imaginado? ¿Quién está en peligro? ¿Y quién está manipulándolo todo? En este thriller absolutamente fascinante, nada ni nadie es lo que parece. Una historia poderosa y retorcida. Una protagonista intensa y muy real. Un sofisticado thriller psicológico para el nuevo milenio con la tensa atmósfera y la oscura elegancia de los mejores clásicos del cine negro.

      La mujer en la ventana
      3,9