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基本信息·出版社：Doubleday
·页码：256 页
·出版日期：2008年01月
·ISBN：0385612745
·条形码：9780385612746
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：哥得兰岛谜案追踪 (小说)
内容简介 The dead man was a drunk; a regular on the park benches of Gotland's city centre. He had been celebrating winning 80,000 Krona at the races. His body is discovered by one of his drinking buddies: he is drenched in blood and someone or something has left a hole the size of a fist in the back of his head. It's winter on the island of Gotland. The tourists have returned home. The tree branches are bare, the sky is sleet grey and the days are getting shorter and darker. Winter is a quiet time for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas and Detective Karin Jacobsson; the tourists tend to take the violent crimes with them back to the mainland. To keep their lives simple, they are tempted to assume that the victim died as a result of a drunken brawl over money. But all of the clues point to something far more sinister. Then 14-year old Fanny Jansson, a volunteer at the local stables, vanishes. At first, Knutas and Jacobsson find it hard to believe that the two cases are linked: one is a violent murder, the other, the disappearance of a lonely and isolated child who has probably run away. Painstakingly, they work the clues, assisted by ambitious TV reporter Johan Berg. But what none of them realise is that truth is much closer to home than they'd ever imagine.
作者简介 Mari Jungstedt has worked as a radio and television journalist for fourteen years. This is her second novel in a series set on the island of Gotland off the coast of Sweden. She lives in Stockholm with her family. Her first novel Unseen is available in Corgi paperback.
编辑推荐 Review Sweden's Det. Supt. Anders Knutas shows that the weeks leading up to Christmas can be just as bleak as the pitiless midsummer of Unseen (2006).Ever since his heavy drinking ended his career as a photographer, Henry ("Flash") Dahlstrom's life has been on a downturn. The Sunday he picks five consecutive winners at the racetrack seems to be an exception, but he brags about it to his friends the next day, and that night he's beaten to death and his home is ransacked. Though it seems a straightforward case of robbery and murder, Knutas and his team soon unearth complications that make it something more. At least part of Flash's windfall was swiped by one of his mates. A hefty pair of deposits, source unknown, had already fattened his bank account. Finally, though the Gotland police aren't to know this, there's evidently some connection between Flash's death and the disappearance of Fanny Jansson, a teenaged stable hand whose troubles are revealed in an increasingly ominous series of flashbacks. As Stockholm journalist Johan Berg resumes his ill-advised affair with Emma Winarve despite her pleas that she can never leave her family, Knutas and his colleagues close in on a killer whose identity is as surprising as it is logical.Features all the virtues of Knutas' English-language debut, from grim atmosphere to sharply rendered characters, plus a better constructed mystery with some unusually subtle clues. (Kirkus Reviews)
