Read by Kirby Heyborne, Julia Whelan. — Random House Audio. — 96 kbps.
Unabridged.
Gone Girl takes up the story of Nick and Amy Dunne's difficult marriage, which is floundering for several reasons. Nick, a former journalist of some seriousness, loses his job due to downsizing. In a somewhat desperate state of mind, he relocates himself and his wife from New York City to the small Midwestern town of North Carthage, Missouri, where Nick is from. On the day of Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing. Nick eventually becomes a prime suspect in her disappearance for various reasons. He used her money to start a business, increased her life insurance, and seems unemotional on camera and in the news.
The first half or so of the book is told in first person, alternately, by both Nick and Amy; Nick's perspective is from the present, and Amy's is in the past by way of journal entries. The two stories are very different. In the second half of the novel, the reader sees that Amy and Nick are deceitful narrators and have not given all information. So what did really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?