Sharp Objects: A Novel

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.