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| Author | Gillian Flynn |
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| Cover artist | Lynne Amft |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Shaye Areheart Books |
Publication date | 5 May 2009 (1st edition) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 349 (hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-307-34156-3 |
| OCLC | 249137284 |
Dark Places is a mystery novel by Gillian Flynn published in 2009. The novel deals with class issues in rural America, intense poverty and the Satanic cult hysteria that swept the United States in the 1980s. Dark Places was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and won Dark Scribe Magazine's Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. It was also listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for two consecutive weeks. A film adaptation of the novel starring Charlize Theron was released on August 7, 2015.