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Something, or someone, is eliminating Evan Delaney??s graduating class. For Evan, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn??t realize just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died young. And on the night of the reunion, another one is savagely butchered. She??s just the first. There??s a serial killer on the loose. One with a major axe to grind with China Lake??s high school graduates?? Meg Gardiner was raised in California and graduated from Stanford Law School; she practiced law in Los Angeles and taught in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
作者简介 Meg Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in Economics, she went on to attend Stanford Law School and to practise law in Los Angeles, later teaching in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She lives with her husband and three children in Cobham, Surrey.
媒体推荐 'A rattling good read, with an unexpected twist at the end.' -- Sunday Telegraph on MISSION CANYON 'With a colourful cast of richly delineated characters, a protagonist with whom the readers will easily identify -- all big-hearted, quick-tongued and hair-trigger-tempered -- this novel provides a fast-paced ride through some of the more dubious nooks and crannies of the American dream.' -- Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian on CHINA LAKE 'From beginning to end CHINA LAKE is a book that no reader of thrillers will be able to put down. Great characters, dynamic plot, nail-biting action -- Meg Gardiner gives us everything.' -- Elizabeth George on CHINA LAKE 'Rough, tough and uncomprimising, China Lake targets harder than a Sidewinder missile.' -- The Good Book Guide
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Evan Delaney is a bit apprehensive about attending her 15-year high school reunion on the Navy base at China Lake, Calif., and with good reason: an alarming number of her classmates have died, in seemingly unrelated ways-"Car crash. ... Pneumonia. ... Cancer. Long Illness. Exposure. ... hospital fire"-and that's before one of the reunion organizers is brutally murdered. As the body count rises, Evan begins to suspect the string of deaths has something to do with her China Lake past. This fourth installment of the China Lake/Evan Delaney mystery series certainly shows the potential for a first-class thrill ride-human characters, an original plot, a crafty scientific angle and some genuine scares (dentophobes, be warned)-but, though a page-turner to the end, its strengths are obscured by too much of each: too many characters, too many backstories, too many twists and too much jargon.
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