Gillian Flynn

Five of the best psychological thrillers by women

These electrifying novels that dig into the peculiar, dark depths of the human psyche will have you questioning who to trust

Nadia Khomami

04, Apr, 2024 @1:19 PM

Panic on pandemic planet: Gillian Flynn on her reboot of cult TV thriller Utopia

The Gone Girl author has given the Channel 4 series a gritty and timely revamp. We visit its set in Chicago to talk conspiracy theories, viruses and vaccines with Flynn and the show’s leading man John Cusack

Stephen Kelly

25, Sep, 2020 @1:20 PM

Making a killing: what can novels teach us about getting away with murder?

From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn, readers love an untraceable method or a villain who wins. Author Peter Swanson says there are eight examples of the perfect murder

Peter Swanson

11, Mar, 2020 @1:39 PM

From The Big Short to Normal People: the books that defined the decade

It began with the fallout from the global financial meltdown and ended with two women sharing the Booker. Which titles shaped the last 10 years?

Alex Clark

26, Dec, 2019 @10:00 AM

'It sickens me': Gillian Flynn slams Gone Girl theory in missing woman case

Lawyer for Jennifer Dulos’s husband is exploring whether her disappearance is a ‘Gone Girl-type case’, provoking fury of author behind book

Alison Flood

08, Jul, 2019 @2:50 PM

Top 10 books about angry women

Stories of female rage were for centuries often stifled or spun. From Euripides to Jean Rhys, Stephen King to Gillian Flynn, here are some of the exceptions

Katie Lowe

22, May, 2019 @10:30 AM

From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn: 50 great thrillers by women

In response to a list of the 100 best crime novels that had only 28 female authors, Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and Dreda Say Mitchell and other leading writers nominate some alternatives

Alison Flood

16, May, 2019 @1:50 PM

Top 10 thrillers about siblings | Alafair Burke

The complex knots of love and rivalry that bind sisters and brothers also provide perfect plots for novelists from Gillian Flynn to Ian McEwan

Alafair Burke

24, Apr, 2019 @10:42 AM

The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 10 – Sharp Objects

A career-best Amy Adams was the ace in Jean-Marc Vallée’s almost deliberately inaccessible follow-up to Big Little Lies

Benjamin Lee

07, Dec, 2018 @5:59 AM

Amanda Craig picks the best books about modern married life

From The Wife to Gone Girl, the novelist shares her favourite depictions of happy (and unhappy) couples in fiction, plus two insightful true accounts

Amanda Craig

27, Sep, 2018 @5:30 AM

Sharp Objects recap: season one finale – Milk

Much like the series itself, the episode that wrapped up the Wind Gap case was deeply satisfying, fantastically gothic and joyfully over the top

Rebecca Nicholson

27, Aug, 2018 @4:28 PM

Rebecca Nicholson

Far from being criticised, the Gone Girl author should be applauded