Gillian Flynn

The Grownup

Crown/Random House

Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning short story, originally published in George R.R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, is now published as a standalone. A young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. When the “psychic” visits Susan’s eerie Victorian home, she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s disturbing teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.