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基本信息·出版社：Arrow Books Ltd
·页码：464 页
·出版日期：2008年02月
·ISBN：0099489961
·条形码：9780099489962
·装帧：简装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 From one of Britain’s leading crime writers —
Flesh and Blood, Ash and Bone — comes his new book — sure
to go straight to the top of the bestseller lists.
Will’s first thought when he saw the man’s face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out.
When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong.
But as their investigation widens, their attention focuses on the biography Bryan was writing about the life and death of fifties film star, Stella Leonard, whose death from drowning, when the car she was driving skidded mysteriously off a lonely Fenland road, uncannily echoed the climax of her most notorious film,
Shattered Glass.
With Bryan’s journalist sister egging them on, and bringing herself into mortal danger as she conducts her own investigation, Will and Helen gradually peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and its own perverted sexuality.
From the Hardcover edition. 作者简介 JOHN HARVEY is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century.' His first novel featuring retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004, and also won a Barry award for the Best British Crime Novel published in the US in 2004. He is also a poet, dramatist and occasional broadcaster. For more about John Harvey, visit www.mellotone.co.uk
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly Acclaimed British author Harvey takes a break from his popular Charlie Resnick series (
Lonely Hearts, etc.) with this well-written but unexciting police procedural. Stephen Bryan, a gay academic specializing in film studies, has been bludgeoned to death in his shower. Cambridge Det. Insp. Will Grayson and Det. Sgt. Helen Walker soon focus on Bryan's spurned lover, Mark McKusick, but the theft of one of Bryan's manuscripts, which deals with a 1950s film star whose great-niece is now one of the bad girls of British cinema, leads the detectives to wonder whether the professor's digging into the past led to his murder. While the solution is anticlimactic and the excerpts from a fictional screenplay add little to the plot or atmosphere, Grayson and Walker emerge as fully developed characters whose choice of career has taken its toll on their health and family lives.
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--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review “John Harvey is one of my favourite authors. Whenever he has a new book out it goes straight to the top of my reading list.”
–Author Peter Robinson
From the Hardcover edition.
