02511cam a2200433 i 4500 1307747092 TxAuBib 20240606120000.0 120830t20122006||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307341556 paperback 0307341550 paperback 9781435283107 Paw Prints 1435283104 Paw Prints (OCoLC)808743680 TxAuBib rda Flynn, Gillian, 1971-, author. Sharp objects : a novel / Gillian Flynn. First paperback edition. New York : Broadway Paperbacks, [2012] ©2006. 254 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in hardcover: New York : Shaye Areheart Books, 2006. Includes excerpt from Gone Girl. Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Since she left town eight years ago, 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 again in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims -- a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming. 20240606. cat Sampler 20170508 vc/cjk. Psychological Puzzle. Women journalists Fiction. Girls Crimes against Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Self-mutilation Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Psychic trauma in children Fiction. Psychiatric hospital patients Fiction. Missouri Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) fast