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Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted - but is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss her old life in London.

And then a couple - the Trehearnes - come to stay, and the story they tell about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married, is such a strange and mysterious one that Susan finds herself increasingly fascinated by it. And when the Trehearnes tell her that their daughter is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to London and find out what really happened...


安东尼•霍洛维茨,英国知名侦探小说作家、编剧。

一九五五年四月,霍洛维茨出生于伦敦一个富裕的犹太家庭。童年时期虽生活优渥,但并不快乐。据他回忆,作为一个超重又内向的孩子,经常遭到校长体罚,在学校的经历也被他描述成“残酷的体验”。八岁时,他就意识到自己会成为一名作家; 他 说:“只有在写作时,我才会感到由衷的快乐”。母亲是霍洛维茨在文学世界的启蒙者,不仅引导他阅读大量书籍,甚至在他十三岁生日时送给他一副人类骸骨。他表示,这件礼物让他意识到“所有人的最终结局都不过是白骨一具”。其父因与时任英国首相哈罗德•威尔逊的政客圈子过从甚密,为了自保,将财产秘密转入瑞士的隐秘账户。结果在霍洛维茨二十二岁时,父亲因癌症去世,大额财产下落不明使霍洛维茨与母亲陷入困境,自此家境一落千丈。

一九七七年,霍洛维茨毕业于约克大学英国文学与艺术史专业。之后他果然朝着作家之路迈进:...

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  • 庸爻儿
    三段论的书中书。喜欢Atticus Pünd Takes the Case胜过Moonflower Murders。除了倒数第二章的凶手rant之外没有什么缺点的书。一如既往地炫技分析和挑战读者,太喜欢了。##可惜漏了底不然真是完美犯罪了。##还有甜甜的爱情线可以磕01-13
  • 以烟景
    Magpie Murders续集(the shared initials!),整本书都延续了前作风格。依然是作中作设置,the Atticus Pünd Case依然是古典whodunnit,甚至还玩了一把case-in–case-in-case, which is more Conan Doyle rather than AC. 整体水平不如前作。trick太简单,全靠plot撑,但又讲得殊乏趣味,虽然all cases concerned都在讲婚姻,但至少我对侦探和她妹妹的婚恋故事毫无兴趣。尽管已经隐隐料到本系列的核心卖点是什么,但最后一章满世界找XX对于一个非西方语境读者来说太不友好了,更别提读完1300页等着我的又是fucking bloody anagrams!09-15
  • BlackScholes
    经典的page turner,三天看完。猜到了故事中的故事的两个杀手,但没有想到why;猜到了开头的暗示,但没有想到why,更没有想到竟然有那么多的暗示,本以为要把书中书的人物和现实中的人物完全连起来才能找到凶手。很有幸碰到图书馆7天幸运读,next is magpie!04-01
  • 见习网络喷子
    侦探丈夫,永远的神。“别去了反正九成是xxx干的。”系列第二部质量远不及第一部的诅咒似乎在这本上得到了很好的应验。更期待霍洛维兹的the word is murder/ the sentences is death那个系列12-31
  • 卡复卡
    太喜欢这个系列了甚至希望作者写满9本(然而是不可能的,第二部都是因为电视要成系列才写的)。一本书的两个detective story都很robust,其中book within a book完全是黄金时代推理小说的风格,现代的部分谜题也很值得推敲。私以为book within the book更好读,可能因为我更喜欢经典的叙事风格吧02-15

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