Sharp objects : a novel
(Book)

"Now an HBO limited series starring Amy Adams"--Cover.

"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2006, and subsequently in paperback by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2007.

Includes an excerpt from Dark places.

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.