“Sharp Objects” is about a murder case, but Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) is the real mystery. Camille, a wayward, self-destructive newspaper reporter in St. Louis, gets an assignment that she’s ...

St. Louis Chronicle reporter Camille Preaker returns to her rural hometown of Wind Gap, Mo., to file a story about two missing girls, one of whom was found dead and presumed murdered. The assignment, ...