Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

In the book, Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn, Camille Preaker is having issues when her editor tells her that she has to go to her childhood home, Wind Gap, to write a story about a missing girl. She finds who she just happens to be looking for wedged between the hardware store and the beauty parlor. The real story in Wind Gap is what happened to the reporter as a child. If the story she was reporting wasn't scary enough, the fact that she has to stay with her mother (who is pretty much a nut right out of a catalogue) is enough to scare her. She returns to her childhood home where she must sleep in the room across from where her sister died. Camille loved her sister, Marian. After she died, Camille went into a depression that caused her to cut herself. Her cuts were words she engraved in her body or a cupcake she cut into her arm or the word "punish" on her hip. She even gouged the word "vanish" on the nap of her neck thinking the words she cut would disappear. With her editorial assignment in front of her, she is having trouble focusing. She flashes back to her childhood and wants to get out of Wind Gap as quick as possible. She has to get her story, but first she must find closure for her childhood before she can make a break in the case. Camille faces trouble, and the citizens of Wind Gap are not making it easy for her to get her story.
This book is thrilling and hard to put down. The reader never knows what is going to happen to Camille. This book will surprise and scare the reader. It is a good book. I'm glad I gave this book a chance because I don't know how many times I picked it up and put it back on the shelf before checking it out.