Sharp Objects

A Novel

Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published Oct. 10, 2012 by Broadway Books.

ISBN:
9780307341556

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WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart.

Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.

NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg

Since she left town eight years ago, 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 again in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory.

HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle

As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims …

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Subjects

  • American First Novelists
  • American Mystery & Suspense Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Psychological Suspense
  • Psychological
  • Thrillers
  • Fiction / Thrillers