From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented “fixer” for one of Oslo’s most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also ...(展开全部)

พรสวรรค์ของโอลาฟคือการฆ่า เขาไม่เคยพลาด ไม่สนว่าเป้าหมายจะเป็นใคร เขาฆ่าได้ทั้งชายและหญิง เด็กและคนชรา แต่ทุกอย่างเปลี่ยนไปเมื่อเขารับงานใหม่เข้ามา มันเป็นงานที่ไม่ได้ซับซ้อน แถมได้ค่าจ้างมากกว่าเดิมถึงห้าเท่า แต่ระหว่างซุ่มดูและเห็นหน้าเป้าหมายเป็นครั้งแรก เขาก็เริ่มลังเล… เป้าหมายคือภรรยาสาวสวยของเจ้านาย เขาปล่อยให้เธอรอด และเลือกปลิดชีพ “บุคคลต้องห้าม” แทน แต่หารู้ไม่ว่าทางเ...(展开全部)

戴维·伽特森，1956年生，美国小说家、诗人。《雪落香杉树》是他的成名作，他花了十年时间在教书之余写成，出版后获福克纳奖和美国书商协会年奖，并畅销近五百万册。 译者 熊裕，资深文学编辑与译者，译有《借东西的小人》、《多莱尔的希腊神话书》等多部作品。

芭芭拉．妮克莉絲 Barbara Nickless 美國推理作家協會成員。在許多寫作討論會與書展中都曾開設工作坊及發表演說。短篇小說與短文曾收錄於美國與英國的選集中。目前與家人住在科羅拉多州。《軌道殺人事件》是她的首部長篇力作，以其熟稔的寫作風格，結合驚悚、愛情、反戰、道德兩難等元素，未出版前就榮獲達芙妮．莫里哀獎「未出版」類別的最佳主流推理大獎，並獲得克雷默爾獎第二名。

Chief Inspector William Read, now working for the police department in Victoria, Australia, once again enlists the help of his old friend, freelance sleuth Jeffery Blackburn, to help him solve the grisly murder of High Court Judge Sir Merton Tenison Sheldon, in Melbourne. Sheldon's murder involves a classic locked room puzzle. As if this weren't enough channlenge for Read and B...(展开全部)

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on thier tongues. All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book -- the frost fe...(展开全部)

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grownups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on thier tongues. All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book -- the frost fe...(展开全部)

Book Description To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense...(展开全部)

Book Description To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense...(展开全部)

Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family - Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate. Strafford faces obstruction from all angles, but carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the murderer. However, as the snow con...(展开全部)