Gillian Flynn is an American mystery author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. She has written three novels including “Sharp Objects,” “Dark Places” and “Gone Girl.” “Gone Girl” became an instant bestseller and was adapted into a movie starring Ben Affleck. Her debut novel, “Sharp Objects,” follows a newspaper journalist who must return to her hometown to report on a series of brutal murders.  It  has been adapted into a limited series on HBO starring Amy Adams. It premieres on Sunday July 8.

According to Amazon, in “Sharp Objects” Camille Preaker is an emotionally troubled reporter who is fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital. She now faces a troubling new assignment which involves returning to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. It has been years since she has spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or the half-sister she barely knows who is a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Once she is settled in, she finds herself identifying with the young victims and is haunted by her own demons. If she wants to get to the bottom of the story and survive being back home, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past.