Gone Girl is a suspenseful mystery thriller novel. It is written by Gillian Flynn. She hasn’t published too many books so far but three of her books have been already adapted for film and TV where Gone Girl is one of them. Dark Places and Sharp Objects are the other two novels of the author which will also make a lovely experience in audio.
The audio narration of the Gone Girl novel is done by Julia Whelan and Kirby Heyborne. They make a very powerful team of narrators and this performance did well, and far beyond the expectations of the audience.
It was quite a war summer mourning in the North Carthage town of Missouri. It was the day of the fifth wedding anniversary of Nick and Amy. They were busy wrapping the presents, making the reservations and all other arrangements, and then all of a sudden their beautiful and clever wife of Nick disappeared. Nick, the husband of the year was not doing any favors to himself with the daydreams regarding the shape and slope of the head of his wife. But then the passages from their diary of Amy revealed that the perfectionist alpha girl could have possibly put anyone on the edge in a very dangerous manner.
Under increasing pressure both from the media and the police, and also from the fiercely doting parents of Amy, the golden boy of the town paraded a never-ending series of many lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick was quite bitter but was he the killer?
Gone Girl is an absorbing novel that Gillian Flynn wrote in a masterly fashion. Flynn did a nice job in depicting the recession that hit the Midwest and the unraveling of a marriage. All of that comes by interweaving the diary entries of the wife with the first-person account of the husband.