Review by Corinna Christopher live on bookshfow 18th April 2013
Story set in U.S.A.. Nick Dunne is a writer in New York who is
made redundant . He has a wife of 5
years named Amy who actually is quite well-off and does not need to work. Her parents Rand and Marybeth have made a lot
of money writing best selling books about a little girl known as “Amazing Amy”.
Nick decides to move them both
down to Carthage a small town in Missouri where his twin sister Margo lives and
where together they open a bar.
As Nick and Amy celebrate the 5th anniversary of their
marriage something untoward happens.
Nick arrives home one day to find one of the rooms in his home wrecked
and his wife Amy missing. In due course
Nick reports her disappearance to the police and the obvious explanation of the
neighbours is that he has murdered Amy.
What next occurs is quite bizarre and complicated. We are given an insight into Amy’s diary
which is revealing about the state of their marriage and her extraordinary
behaviour.
The two main characters follow a compelling and riveting tale to the
end of this book. The conclusion was a
bit unlikely I thought but the whole read was anything but dull.
Nick and Amy were not likeable people and did not make me sympathetic
in any way to their plight. An unusual
book and a bit unsettling
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