It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King's ultimate vehicle of terror.

It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. But Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King's ultimate vehicle of terror.

本杰明•布莱克（Benjamin Black）是著名作家约翰•班维尔（John Banville）的笔名。班维尔1945年出生于爱尔兰，现居都柏林。班维尔是一位敏锐的评论家，更是一名出色的小说家。2005年，凭《海》获得当代英国小说界最重要的奖项——布克奖（Booker Prize）；随后，应《纽约时报》之邀，班维尔化身本杰明•布莱克创作“犯罪侦探小说”《堕落的信徒》等，成为当代备受瞩目的犯罪小说作家之一。

In the debut crime novel from a Booker Prize-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society. Picador USA

在线阅读本书 The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman’s corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman’s history. He discovers a ...(展开全部)

"This book has been the greatest challenge of my writing life, and the most rewarding; I hope and trust my readers will find it has been worth the wait.” - Hilary Mantel They have eaten his banquet and now they will want to sweep him out with the rushes and the bones. But this was his table: he runs on the top of it, among the broken meats. Let them try to pull him down. They w...(展开全部)

"This book has been the greatest challenge of my writing life, and the most rewarding; I hope and trust my readers will find it has been worth the wait.” - Hilary Mantel They have eaten his banquet and now they will want to sweep him out with the rushes and the bones. But this was his table: he runs on the top of it, among the broken meats. Let them try to pull him down. They w...(展开全部)

查尔斯·哈丁·费尔斯(Charles Harding Firth,1857–1936)，英国历史学家，斯坦霍普奖得主，牛津大学现代史教授，英国皇家历史学会主席。主攻英格兰内战和英联邦时期的历史，其作品获得了很高的评价。 译者简介 曾瑞云，桂林电子科技大学外国语学院讲师，英语语言文学硕士，主要研究方向为英美文学。十余年来，在国内外期刊和会议上发表文章十余篇，主持广西壮族自治区科研和教改项目三项，参与编写教材一种。

查尔斯·哈丁·费尔斯(Charles Harding Firth,1857–1936)，英国历史学家，斯坦霍普奖得主，牛津大学现代史教授，英国皇家历史学会主席。主攻英格兰内战和英联邦时期的历史，其作品获得了很高的评价。 译者简介 曾瑞云，桂林电子科技大学外国语学院讲师，英语语言文学硕士，主要研究方向为英美文学。十余年来，在国内外期刊和会议上发表文章十余篇，主持广西壮族自治区科研和教改项目三项，参与编写教材一种。

Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn, and upon his arrest, was accused of trying to usurp the King himself. But here Tracy Borman...(展开全部)