If you’re among the dozen or so people who haven’t read Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl yet, you really should. There hasn’t been a thriller with its kind of word-of-mouth popularity for quite a long while, and it’s all deserved. It’s the kind of book that has “crossed over” so many sub-markets and sub-genres that it’s prompted a lot of discussion as to why. What, exactly, makes Gone Girl go?
I’ve written a blog for my UK publisher, Orion, answering this very question. You can check it out at the Murder Room…