When a missing 9-year-old girl from a small town in southern Missouri is found dead and a second has gone missing, Frank Curry, the editor from a small Chicago newspaper, sends Camille Preaker to get the scoop. Both events just happen to have occurred in her hometown, Wind Gap, where her mother, stepfather and younger sister still live and to where Camille has no desire to return. She comes from a very—maybe dysfunctional is too tame a word to describe her family, but I will say it—dysfunctional family. Because it is a small newspaper and funds are limited, Camille’s editor believes she can stay with her family. Being in her old house and spending time with her family causes undesirable memories from her youth to surface. Getting out of that house as soon as possible is a top priority. Camille has a secret she wants to keep hidden and fears it’s being discovered, a secret that caused her to spend time in an institution. Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn’s first novel, intrigued me from the beginning and I could not put it down until I found all the answers.