驚悚懸疑小說

Fractured
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20123390
作者：
Slaughter, Karin
定價：
280
會員價：
$238
ISBN：
9780440244479
出版年份：
2009
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
544
  • 本書介紹
少女的悲劇 (威爾特蘭特 /亞特蘭大城系列之二)

分秒必爭！她還可以活多久？
一個慘無人道的兇殺案件，發生在最令人稱羨的家庭裡，
威爾．特蘭特深入這個完美生活的廢墟之內，赤裸地展露其不堪的一面。
緊張萬分，令人屏息，大呼過癮

　　她躺在一灘血泊中，內褲被扯下來。
　　她經歷了什麼樣的折磨？在這男人手裡承受了什麼樣的羞辱？

　　安斯利公園裡豪邸林立，街道兩旁盡是綠蔭，為亞特蘭大最高檔的社區之一。但在一棟雄偉的宅邸中，於一名少女的奢華臥室內，女孩慘遭殘忍殺害。她驚嚇不已的母親站在走廊上的碎玻璃中，赤手空拳地殺了她女兒的兇手。

　　喬治亞州調查局的威爾．特蘭特探員來此原本只是出於政治考量，打個照面，因為謀殺現場隸屬於亞特蘭大警察局。但特蘭特立即發現警察視而未見的種種蹊蹺，他在紛雜的鑑識證據和母親的震驚眼神中，察覺到細微線索。幾分鐘內，特蘭特便接手此案──他後來發現還有案外案。他確定另一名少女失蹤，而兇手則逍遙法外。當他們直搗失蹤女孩那高級的私立高中時，各種可能的動機和嫌疑犯紛紛現身，那裡是個名副其實的大熔爐，在教職員和學生間，為想擠進上流社會所使出的殘酷手段和性操縱層層交織。

　　特蘭特手上只有些許線索，還得和恨他入骨的女警探搭檔辦案，身邊有眾敵環伺──但有種感覺緊咬著他不放，這個案子發生在最令人稱羨的家庭裡，深深切入完美生活的廢墟之內，赤裸展露其不堪的一面；在那，人類惡魔以復仇者之姿冉冉現身。

“Breathless tension!” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of [the year’s] most remarkable achievements,” crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers and critics alike with Triptych, her New York Times bestselling suspense novel set in metropolitan Atlanta. Now the #1 internationally bestselling author returns to the damaged landscape she knows so well in a bold new novel—at once a powder keg of suspense, a gritty portrait of a cop’s life, and a searing exploration of a shocking crime and its aftermath… 

With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare hands. 

Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is here only to do a political favor; the murder site belongs to the Atlanta police. But Trent soon sees something that the cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the shell-shocked mother. Within minutes, Trent is taking over the case—and adding another one to it. He is sure that another teenage girl is missing, and that a killer is on the loose.

Armed with only fleeting clues, teamed with a female cop who has her own personal reasons for hating him, Trent has enemies all around him—and a gnawing feeling that this case, which started in the best of homes, is cutting quick and deep through the ruins of perfect lives broken wide-open: where human demons emerge with a vengeance.
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