dark places::The only kansas based things that have worked their way into popular culture are in cold blood and that goddamn wizard of oz dark places

dark places::The only kansas based things that have worked their way into popular culture are in cold blood and that goddamn wizard of oz.
The only kansas based things that have worked their way into popular culture are in cold blood and that goddamn wizard of oz.
With a few other places like miami, chicago or boston thrown in now and then.
Gillian flynn is originally from kansas city, and her first book was very well received so i was excited to hear that dark places was set in both rural kansas and k.
I was excited to get one of the rare chances to read a story set in the place i live.
Or i70 between k.
Louis that is filled with tacky billboards and low rent strip clubs.
One restaurant that she uses as a location recently burned to the ground, and its owner is charged with arson.
I know she was telling a story about the aftermath of a brutal crime and how it screwed up the sole survivor, but damn!
Tourism board would have thanked her for it.
Enough of my bitching.
About the book: back in 1985 on a rundown kansas farm, a mother and two daughters are brutally killed.
Supposedly, ben was a satan worshipping freak who went shotgun and axe happy one winter night.
In the present, thirtyone year old libby is a freaking mess.
Libby has been living off the trust fund that started when donations poured in after the murders, but the money is about to run out.
Desperate, libby agrees to a paid appearance for the kill club, a group of amateur investigators who think that her brother is innocent.
The story is told in two parallel ways.
This is a character based mystery, and flynn does a great job with both the struggling libby in the present and the family in 1985.