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After finally reading Gone Girl a few weeks back, I decided to listen to Gillian Flynn's two earlier books, Sharp Objects and Dark Places. I actually liked both of them better than Gone Girl; I'd rank Dark Places (her second novel) as the best of the three.
Flynn does a great job constructing her novels. I noticed especially in Dark Places that myriad small details that seemed to be included only to add to a certain atmosphere or to flesh out a character turn out to be important plot elements, such that when a connection was made I would think, Oh, of course! even though up to that point I didn't have a clue. I love it when an author can pull off that kind of intricate plotting.
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