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The walls, she explains, were covered with photographs of naked women.
Some of the girls were spreading themselves wide, others were being held down and penetrated.
And thats just the first chapter.
Gore and kink arent exactly unlikely totems of the thriller, but Flynn lends them a special unvarnished grotesquerie.
Flynn demands that you sympathize with villains even more than victims.
Here are seven novels that serve up some of whatSharp Objectsoffers.
Dare Meby Megan Abbott
This novel about teenage cheerleaders will scare the pants off parents of girls.
Oh, and have a go at frame each other for murder.
Theyre the pom-pommed versions of Amma and her crew.
Someone sprinkled arsenic in the sugar bowl the family used to sweeten their after-dinner raspberries.
Wind Gap rings with echoes of the gossipy, self-righteous townspeople who bedevil and are bedeviled by the Blackwoods.
They arent character detectives, burdened by their swagger.
Theyre people, and the hellish crimes they investigate yank on tender threads in their psyches.
Now, hes investigating the murder of a young girl who was found in those same woods.
Memories of his childhood friends haunt Rob, just as Marians spirit flashes in Camilles peripheral vision.
(Where have you guysbeen?)
Id always believed that my first time would be by force, Eileen explains.
Then, that woman turns up dead.
Next, Francines dear friend Pauline ends up dead and dismembered, just like the first victim.
Moore once told an interviewer that the combination of women and sex is the only thing that interests her.
And this book positively spills over with it.
(At least three real-life killers have since cited it as inspiration for their crimes.)
