After thoroughly enjoying Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl I decided to check out the rest of her output to date. Her first novel, 2006's Sharp Object was a spiky treat but 2009's Dark Places just never grabbed me.

AS A young boy Steven Spielberg sent his toy trains crashing into one another, filming the result on 8mm home-movie film; Orson Welles once described making movies as the biggest electric train-set a boy ever had.