Dark Places is a gripping mystery novel by Gillian Flynn, published in 2009. This compelling crime fiction explores themes of class disparity, extreme poverty, and the Satanic cult hysteria that gripped rural America in the 1980s.
Recognized for its excellence, Dark Places was shortlisted for the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and received the Dark Scribe Magazine's Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. It also enjoyed commercial success, remaining on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for two weeks.
The novel was adapted into a film starring Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron, which was released on August 7, 2015.