Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn - 2006

New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2006. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Gillian Flynn on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine heel gently pushed. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($24.00) with light rubbing. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Debut novel.

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.