Once Diondra gets arrested, he resolves to spend the remainder of his life watching out for Libby. Ben yells at Libby to stay away from the house to protect her from Diondra, but he does very little to stop Diondra strangling Michelle, and does nothing to stop the murders of the rest of his family, albeit there wasn't a lot he could have done against an axe-wilding hitman. She kills Michelle to keep her from telling anyone. Berserk Button: Diondra goes crazy when Ben suggests she have an abortion.Diane finally loses patience with Libby after Libby kills her dog, but this is shown to be mostly accidental and provoked. Ben is hated for killing cows with Trey and Diondra, but they did so in a drugged-up haze. Bad People Abuse Animals: Deconstructed.In flashbacks told from her perspective, their mother is deeply concerned by the animosity between the two. Annoying Younger Sibling: Michelle was this to Ben in particular, always going out of her way to antagonize him.Libby has three toes and half of her ring finger amputated thanks to frostbite. An Arm and a Leg: Debby gets her arm sliced nearly clean off during the massacre.Alliterative Name: Krissi Cates and Debby Day.Needless to say, that goes downhill quickly. All Girls Want Bad Boys: Patty's initial attraction to Runner."Diondra tended to pass out while still holding a bottle in her hand, it was her preferred way to drink, to do it til it knocked her out, that last sip nearby just in case." Although she's only 17, Diondra qualifies.Runner is stumbling-drunk in about half of the scenes he appears in, and otherwise buzzed.While Runner is not physically abusive to the Days, he is a terrible person. And Diondra's father threatens to kill her if she ever has sex outside of marriage. Abusive Parents: Diondra's parents leave her alone for months at a time, with just three dogs for company.Warning: Unmarked spoilers and some of the trope headings are spoilers. It was made into a 2015 film with the same name, starring Charlize Theron as Libby.
Now, twenty-four years later, the truth is going to be even harder to find. She begins to realize that everyone had something to hide that day. Her testimony convicted her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, of the killings, and in Libby's words, "Since then I've been waiting to die." But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben's innocence, Libby starts to ask questions she never dared to before. When Libby Day was seven years old, her mother and two sisters were murdered. The second crime novel by Gillian Flynn that deals with class issues in rural America, poverty, and the Satanic Panic that swept the United States in the 1980s.
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