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基本信息·出版社：Viking Adult
·页码：429 页
·出版日期：2007年05月
·ISBN：0670038601
·条形码：9780670038602
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
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A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.
Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.
Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end,
In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of
Mystic River and
The Lovely Bones.
作者简介 Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States, and Malawi. This is her first book.
媒体推荐 From Booklist *Starred Review* Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, land the first big murder case of their police careers: a 12-year-old girl has been murdered in the woods adjacent to a Dublin suburb. Twenty years before, two children disappeared in the same woods, and Ryan was found clinging to a tree trunk, his sneakers filled with blood, unable to tell police anything about what happened to his friends. Ryan, although scarred by his experience, employs all his skills in the search for the killer and in hopes that the investigation will also reveal what happened to his childhood friends.
In the Woods is a superior novel about cops, murder, memory, relationships, and modern Ireland. The characters of Ryan and Maddox, as well as a handful of others, are vividly developed in this intelligent and beautifully written first novel, and author French relentlessly builds the psychological pressure on Ryan as the investigation lurches onward under the glare of the tabloid media. Equally striking is the picture of contemporary Ireland, booming economically and fixated on the shabbiest aspects of American popular culture. An outstanding debut and a series to watch for procedural fans.
Thomas GaughanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Lisa Unger, author of the New York Times bestseller BEAUTIFUL LIES and SLIVER OF TRUTH With her utterly beautiful and brilliantly evocative prose, Tana French invites us into a murky netherworld so seductive and engrossing that we can't turn away, even when we try. Ms. French is an extraordinary writer and
IN THE WOODS is a stellar debut.
Kelly Braffet, author of LAST SEEN LEAVING and JOSIE AND JACK Tana French's
In the Woods is tangled, dark, and impossible to put down. With a story like a freight train and characters so vivid that I found myself wondering what they were doing while I wasn't reading it, it's one of the best books I've read this year. In fact, it's so good that I wish I'd written it - it's absolutely brilliant.
Lisa Dierbeck, author of ONE PILL MAKES YOU SMALLER From the first chapter on, In the Woods lures the reader into sinister terrain. This is classic, cinematic suspense. I read it with sweaty palms and a racing heart. Tana French has the natural storytelling gift of a young du Maurier. The taut pacing evokes Hitchcock. Keep the lights on and pour yourself two shots of scotch.
编辑推荐 She `A real show-stopper of a thriller . . . French tightens the
tension slowly until squealing point; Ryan's increasingly taut relationship
with Maddox is woven cunningly around the crime plot. A splendid,
page-turning debut.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Marcel Berlins, The Times `Tana French's IN THE WOODS is a terrific debut . . . French's
psychological insights into the damaged policeman's torment combine
grippingly with the clammy atmosphere that surrounds the lethal woods. As
an example of a novel in which the past returns to haunt the present, this
scores very high marks.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Irish Independent Review `This is a wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut
novel, a multilayered psychological thriller that digs beneath the surface
of ordinary lives and delivers excitement and insight in large helpings.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Irish Times `The characterisation is spot on (Cassie Maddox, for one, just
leaps from the page) the dialogue pushes the story along, and the plot is
expertly fixed on the framework of the narrative. The book's author is a
professional actor; she can now add to professional author to her CV.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Margaret Carragher, Sunday Independent, Ireland `This astonishing first novel weaves a web of intrigue to confound
even the most astute: and its denouement, swift, shocking and sublimely
executed, will remain with the reader long after the final page has been
turned.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 专业书评 From Publishers Weekly Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. When Katy Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from Knocknaree, a Dublin suburb, is found murdered at a local archeological dig, Det. Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, must probe deep into the victim's troubled family history. There are chilling similarities between the Devlin murder and the disappearance 20 years before of two children from the same neighborhood who were Ryan's best friends. Only Maddox knows Ryan was involved in the 1984 case. The plot climaxes with a taut interrogation by Maddox of a potential suspect, and the reader is floored by the eventual identity and motives of the killer. A distracting political subplot involves a pending motorway in Knocknaree, but Ryan and Maddox are empathetic and flawed heroes, whose partnership and friendship elevate the narrative beyond a gory tale of murdered children and repressed childhood trauma.
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From AudioFile This is an amazing piece of work, taut, persuasive, and intricately constructed to stunning effect. On a summer evening in 1984 in a Dublin suburb, three 12-year-old best friends disappeared. One was eventually found in the woods alive but utterly traumatized, with amnesia, and shoes full of blood; the other two are never seen or heard of again. Twenty years later, the shattered boy, now a homicide detective in Dublin known as Rob Ryan, is assigned the case of a 12-year-old murdered girl found in the same wood. Steven Crossley does an expert job of creating and sustaining with harrowing precision Ryans inner and outer lives as the case creates something of a fugue state for him, and for the reader. A dazzling performance. B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine--
Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
