Amy’s diary entries reflect all of this, stating that she began feeling unsafe around Nick after he started “us” her for sex, and yet shoved her when she came to him expressing her desire to have a child. They present him with credit card statements indicating over two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of debt, explain that blood was found all over the Dunnes’ kitchen, discovered that on Valentine’s Day of this year Amy went to a local abandoned mall known for housing junkies and homeless to try to buy a gun-and what’s worse, the Dunnes’ neighbor Noelle Hawthorne reveals publicly that Amy was pregnant, something that shocks Nick, as she always seemed uninterested in children. As Nick halfheartedly tries to fend off Andie’s desperate attempts to contact him, he struggles with the police’s increasing skepticism. In the present, Nick attempts to solve a treasure hunt Amy has left behind for him-their yearly tradition-while in the past, Amy recounts falling in love with Nick and marrying him, promising that she’d never be a traditional nagging wife and would never treat him like a “dancing monkey.”Īs Nick solves more and more of Amy’s clues, he remains stoically unconcerned about his wife’s well-being, suggesting his guilt to the skeptical police it’s eventually revealed that he has a twenty-three-year-old mistress named Andie, one of his students at the local community college, and has been seeing her for over a year. As Nick cooperates with investigators, including lead detectives Rhonda Boney and Jim Gilpin, answering their questions about his marriage with self-admitted lies, Amy recounts the heady early days of her and Nick’s whirlwind romance.

When Nick receives a call telling him that his cat has gotten out, Nick drives to his and Amy’s large home in the suburb of North Carthage to find the front door standing wide open, and his wife “gone.”Īs the investigation begins, Nick’s present alternates with diary entries written by Amy over the course of the last seven years. From Nick and Go’s conversation at the bar, it becomes clear that Nick and Amy’s marriage is stale and uninteresting. After being laid off two years ago from their magazine jobs in the midst of the Great Recession, Nick and his wife, Amy Elliott Dunne, moved from Brooklyn to Carthage to help care for Nick’s ailing mother, Maureen, who has since passed away. On the hot July morning of his fifth wedding anniversary Nick Dunne arrives at the bar he co-owns with his twin sister, Go, in their hometown of Carthage, Missouri.

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