Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn is the latest novel getting the limited series treatment on HBO.

Flynn is best known for her book and the successful movie adaptation, Gone Girl, which starred Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike and was directed by David Fincher.

Like Gone Girl, Sharp Objects, Flynn's first novel, is a character study wrapped inside of a character study, and it's the characters that bring make the story worth watching on the HBO adaptation.

Amy Adams stars as Camille Preaker, a reporter for the St. Louis Chronicle, learns from her editor, Frank Curry (Miguel Sandoval), that little girls are going missing in her hometown of Wind Gap. People who cover murders in their hometown can make something of them because of the personal nature of the stories.

When Camille protests that it's not going to win her a Pulitzer, Curry says, "You're not winning a Pulitzer because you're only half good at writing,...