It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache hascome not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society— where an obsessive historian’s quest for the remains of the founder of Qu...(展开全部)

“‘A Better Man,' with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre.” ―Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal "Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions." ―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious...(展开全部)

“‘A Better Man,' with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre.” ―Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal "Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions." ―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious...(展开全部)

As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the most unusual case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in one of the city's oldest buildings - a library where the English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. And the death opens a door into the past, exposing ...(展开全部)

This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.

This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.

The lives of four individuals--a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator--intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power. "With How to Paint a Dead Man," Sarah Hall, "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" ("The Guardian"), delivers "a maddeningly enticing read . . . a...(展开全部)

伊恩·兰金，英国著名推理小说、犯罪小说作家。1960年生于苏格兰，毕业于爱丁堡大学。他曾经做过葡萄采摘员、养猪人、收税员、酒精研究员、音响记者和朋克音乐家。 目前，他是英国国内首屈一指的犯罪小说作家，他的小说曾多次获得文学奖项。迄今为止，他的17本系列作品被翻译成31国文字出版，兰金也早已成为英国当代最重要的作家之一。 1997年，《黑与蓝》荣获英国犯罪小说作家协会金匕首奖，同时获得美国推理小说作家协会爱伦坡奖提名；1999年，《死灵魂》再获金匕首奖提名；2004年，《掘墓盗尸人》夺得爱伦坡奖最佳小说奖；2005、2006年连续两年赢得英国国家图书奖年度犯罪惊悚小说奖。 2002年，兰金因其文学贡献获得大英帝国勋章；2005年获得英国犯罪小说作家协会颁予代表终身成就的钻石匕首奖，成为史上最年轻的钻石匕首奖得主；同年，兰金再获法国推理小说大奖、德国犯罪...(展开全部)