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作者：FRENCH, TANA 出版社：THORNDIKE PR 出版日期：2010年10月01日 語言：英文 ISBN：9781410429742 裝訂：精裝 內容簡介TOP 「我要和你一起私奔！」 多麼動人的堅定告白，可是那一晚她卻失約了！ 從此，不斷迴盪著的疑惑和心痛，多年後，卻凝結成了呼喚他重返傷心地的聲音…… 他用了一輩子的時間相信：家，是用來逃離的！而她卻給了他一個截然不同的答案…… 暈黃的街燈見證了他的癡情，可是那只舊手提箱卻徹底粉碎了他的等待…… 就在二十二年前的那個冬日夜晚，十九歲的法蘭克癡癡地等著蘿西出現，小小的船票是他們私奔的神聖約定。但是直到天色化為淺灰，他依然在「忠誠之地」的盡頭等待，而滿腔的心碎都化為一句疑問：「妳到哪裡去了？」 即使生命浪潮猛烈地變了調，法蘭克還是選擇在當天遠離家鄉。被拋棄的苦澀讓他成了臥底警探的一頁傳奇，膽大無畏、肆無忌憚，喬裝臥底猶如天生的變色龍。但是妹妹潔姬的一通電話卻拆穿了他所有的偽裝──在老家附近的廢屋裡竟然發現了蘿西當年的手提箱！ 要回去爛地方遠比逃脫容易得多，回到家鄉「忠誠之地」的法蘭克想查明一切，卻發現自己又再次陷入了劍拔弩張的家庭關係中。當他循線在廢屋地下室找到蘿西的骨骸時，法蘭克這才明白，當年自己並未被狠狠拋棄，蘿西也從未離開！ 沒想到，此時弟弟凱文竟在廢屋墜樓身亡，是畏罪、還是遭到報復？法蘭克一心想要揪出真正的兇手，但是「忠誠之地」的居民卻不信任警察，同僚則希望他別插手……夾在親情、道義、承諾和背叛的重重疑雲之中，他該如何掙脫這一切，尋回真相？ 比《神秘森林》的懸疑佈局更張力十足，比《神秘化身》的駭人秘密更曲折難解！文壇才女塔娜．法蘭琪再次以靈犀之眼透視人性，讓讀者感受成長的苦澀、親情的羈絆，以及嫉妒和背叛的毀滅力道，精采到令人魂不守舍！ ★本書中譯本《神秘回聲》由皇冠出版 THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED THIRD NOVEL OF THE DUBLIN MURDER SQUAD FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR BACK IN 1985, FRANK MACKEY WAS NINETEEN, GROWING UP POOR IN DUBLIN’S INNER CITY, AND LIVING CRAMMED INTO A SMALL FLAT WITH HIS FAMILY ON FAITHFUL PLACE. BUT HE HAD HIS SIGHTS SET ON A LOT MORE. HE AND ROSIE DALY WERE ALL READY TO RUN AWAY TO LONDON TOGETHER, GET MARRIED, GET GOOD JOBS, BREAK AWAY FROM FACTORY WORK AND POVERTY AND THEIR OLD LIVES. BUT ON THE WINTER NIGHT WHEN THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE, ROSIE DIDN’T SHOW. FRANK TOOK IT FOR GRANTED THAT SHE’D DUMPED HIM-PROBABLY BECAUSE OF HIS ALCOHOLIC FATHER, NUTCASE MOTHER, AND GENERALLY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY. HE NEVER WENT HOME AGAIN. NEITHER DID ROSIE. EVERYONE THOUGHT SHE HAD GONE TO ENGLAND ON HER OWN AND WAS OVER THERE LIVING A SHINY NEW LIFE. THEN, TWENTY-TWO YEARS LATER, ROSIE’S SUITCASE SHOWS UP BEHIND A FIREPLACE IN A DERELICT HOUSE ON FAITHFUL PLACE, AND FRANK IS GOING HOME WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT. GETTING SUCKED IN IS A LOT EASIER THAN GETTING OUT AGAIN. FRANK FINDS HIMSELF STRAIGHT BACK IN THE DARK TANGLE OF RELATIONSHIPS HE LEFT BEHIND. THE COPS WORKING THE CASE WANT HIM OUT OF THE WAY, IN CASE LOYALTY TO HIS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MAKES HIM A LIABILITY. FAITHFUL PLACE WANTS HIM OUT BECAUSE HE’S A DETECTIVE NOW, AND THE PLACE HAS NEVER LIKED COPS. FRANK JUST WANTS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO ROSIE DALY-AND HE’S WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, TO HIMSELF OR ANYONE ELSE, TO GET THE JOB DONE.作者簡介塔娜．法蘭琪 (TANA FRENCH) 從小由於父親工作的關係，住過愛爾蘭、義大利、美國、馬拉威等地，直至一九九○年才定居都柏林。因為經常搬家，接觸不同文化，使得她的觀察力也遠比一般人敏銳。 她在都柏林的三一學院接受專業演員訓練，並曾參與戲劇、電影、配音等工作，而這些經歷也幫助她能夠成功模擬角色的各種樣態。《神秘森林》雖是她的第一本小說，但她以聰明、細膩、優雅的敘事手法，配合人物心理的精準掌握，讓英國和愛爾蘭的出版社為之驚豔，立即以六位數英鎊的高價搶下版權。 而《神秘森林》出版後也果然贏得全球各地書評的一致讚譽，不僅榮獲「愛倫坡獎」、「安東尼獎」、「麥可維提獎」、「巴瑞獎」等四項「年度最佳處女作」大獎，更躍登紐約時報、出版家週刊、今日美國報、舊金山紀事報、洛杉磯時報、丹佛郵報、波士頓環球報、BOOK SENSE、北卡獨立書商協會等全美九大暢銷排行榜，並入選亞馬遜網路書店「年度編輯推薦選書」。目前已售出超過三十國版權，銷量更已突破五十萬冊！全書優美的文筆、神秘的氣氛，帶領讀者難以自拔地走入這片蒼鬱的謎霧森林中。 繼《神秘森林》贏得無數讚譽之後，塔娜．法蘭琪以《神秘森林》中備受讀者喜愛的女警探凱西為主角，完成了續作《神秘化身》，再次席捲國際文壇，並同樣入選亞馬遜網路書店的年度編輯推薦選書！ 而在暌違兩年後，法蘭琪終於推出第三本小說《神秘回聲》，結合了青春的幻滅、真摯的情感、複雜的謎團，以及無法脫逃的罪與罰，再度呈現出一部精采絕倫的傑作！ TANA FRENCH IS THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF IN THE WOODS, WHICH WON THE EDGAR, BARRY, MACAVITY, AND ANTHONY AWARDS, AND OF THE LIKENESS. SHE GREW UP IN IRELAND, ITALY, MALAWI, AND THE UNITED STATES, AND TRAINED AS AN ACTOR AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. SHE LIVES IN DUBLIN WITH HER HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER. |
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