The Lincoln Park-based novelist Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” sold 20 million copies, redefined the mystery genre, and, ever since, publishers have sought “the next ‘Gone Girl.’” Flynn has yet to follow up. But her name alone makes things happen today.
Gillian Flynn, the author of"Gone Girl" and other books, at home in Chicago on March 6, 2023.
Its title, “Scorched Grace,” carried a dime-rack luridness, and its prose would set Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade or Robert B. Parker’s Spenser at ease: Douaihy’s suns don’t rise, they appear with a “slow simmer,” like “the swollen red of a mosquito bite.
And I did this because Molly Stern was behind it. She championed “Gone Girl” , which was not a typical approach to a mystery. She hung by me, she hired editors who know my tastes, so they basically funnel books to me they think I’ll appreciate. I have four more titles in various states of publishing now. Not necessarily mysteries — just books that deserve to be published.Q: Yet publishers are still chasing the next “Gone Girl.
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