From New York Times bestselling author Gillian Flynn, a twisted novel of literary suspense, and her most ambitious to date. Nick's wife Amy has disappeared, and the police suspect he's involved. Amy's friends reveal she was pregnant, and that Nick had been furious, which he swears isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches that he insists weren't his: death by smothering, heavily wooded areas nearby, where to find arsenic. Soon the press learn that, as his marriage with Amy was unraveling, Nick had been having an affair with Hannah, a local schoolteacher--who appears tied to the case. Nick frantically tries to figure out who would frame him for such an awful crime before he is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, all the while wondering if his wife could have orchestrated what looks like her own murder. Fast-paced, dark, and ingeniously plotted, Gone Girl confirms Flynn's status as one of the hottest thriller novelists around.