gillian flynn is with us now.hanks for having me. >> sort of sucks you in. twisted. there weren't enough scary women in fiction. >> yeah. >> i am pro scary women in fiction. i feel like there's a lot of over the top scary women. there's a vampy soap opera villain he ises. as soon as they unsettle you and make you fear for your life, i don't think there are a lot of those in fiction right now. >> that's one of your gifts. >> yeah. >> let me just say that amy is very scary. i was up until 4:23 wondering how it was going to turn out, what is she going to do, it's one of those things, especially if you're married, it makes you look at your spouse and say how well do you know a person? were you trying to scare all married people? how is your marriage, gillian? >> you know, i did want to write about the dark side of marriage. my first two books had unattached narrators, they couldn't make a connection at all. i wanted to go the opposite way, which is what happens when you try to be with someone for life. in this case, v

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. >> a can't put down thriller by gillian flynn, he said, she said movie.ife goes missing. he's suspect number one in the disappearance. we get alternating chapters between nick and amy. we gradually find out what happens. this has more twists than a chubby checker concert. >> a "dateline" series. tom, thanks so much. now let's turn it over to willie. >> thanks. moving on to what's up in the world of entertainment. "e! news" correspond. >> good morning. >> start with tomkat. >> yes. >> after six years of marriage, what's the latest? >> the latest is she gave an interview six weeks ago before she filed. talk about foreshadowing. she says it's her season. she's not focused on tom cruise, it's about her and what she wants in her life. talked to a divorce lawyer, he said a couple of ways, you can be nice, go for the throat. katie went for jugular. >> when you dig deep and read reporting, this has been on her mind for sometime. it didn't happen overnight. >> didn't happen overnight. apparently have you to be in new york two years to establish residency. katie wa