Gone girl by Gilian Flynn

"Gone girl" by Gilian Flynn. This book is published by Crown Publishing Group in Apr 2014 and has 422 pages.

Nick Dunn & Emmie are married and then laid off during recession. They relocate to Missouri from New York to be close to Nick's parents. Nick opens a bar with his twin sister by borrowing money from Emmie and Emmie becomes a home maker. On their 5th anniversary Emmie disappears.

There is evidence of scuffle and blood loss. Police start investigation. A number of credit cards are taken on Nick's name and overdrawn. Nick is suspected of killing his wife.

Is Emmie alive? Is she kidnapped? Did he kill her? Is Nick guilty? Will he be arrested? Where is the gone girl?

The book tells us how husband and wife look differently at the same thing or incident. How they can not read each others expectations and feel miserable because the spouse does not behave the way they expect.

Narration is somewhat drab. There are two to three major twists in the tale that keeps reader interested. Character of Emmie is an enigma. Her intelligence, planning and ability to get what she wants by whichever means is amazing. Character of Nick is of an easy going husband. It's intriguing.

The story is centered around Emmie's disappearance and what really happened. Characters like Go (Margo, Nick's twin sister), Boney, Andy, Daisy etc play their part but it is essentially the story of two protagonists.

The end of book was an anti climax. Readers are baffled as to why Nick does what he does. It appeared like the 'sudden death' of the story. If length of this book was shorter, it would have become more effective and interesting.

I understand that this book is being made into a motion picture.

Not a must read.