At last, a decent female sociopath!

So have seen Gone Girl yet? Lots of us have already read the book.

Out of nowhere came Gillian Flynn, with her clever, tricksy thriller than manipulates everyone from the reader to the principal male protagonist. The film, safe in David Fincher's hands, gave us a genuinely sociopathic female lead (it would have been a movie crime had the female protagonist been given the traditional Hollywood female eunuch makeover).

How often does that happen? Answer: not very. Someone in California has already written - ahem - A Study of Psychopathy in the Heteronormative