At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death. For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide. A Question of Cost Accounting... Or does he? It's hard to imagine why a young man with a brilliant sc...(展开全部)

露丝·斯科尔（Ruth Scurr），1971年生，曾在牛津大学和剑桥大学求学，获剑桥大学政治学博士学位，现在剑桥大学讲授政治学和历史学课程。她还是一位出色的文化批评家，是《纽约书评》《泰晤士报文学副刊》撰稿人。本书一经出版即得到知识界关注，引起热烈反响。

Robespierre was only 36 when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Only a few months before, this pale and fragile man, formal, anxious to the point of paranoia, steeled by deep-held principles, had held centre place in the new Festival of the Supreme Being, wearing his sky-blue coat and decreeing a new religion for France. Robespierre and th...(展开全部)

The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blun...(展开全部)

The most controversial thriller ever written about health-care reform in America. "Riveting...filled with action." ( San Diego Union-Tribune) "A hair-raising, cautionary tale." ( Detroit News )

美国著名畅销书作家，同时也是一位有成就的医学博士。他的小说如《入侵》、《紧急传染》等主要涉及生物犯罪等内容，在《夺命病毒》的作者寄语中，罗宾科克写道：“很不幸，有关生物武器和生物恐怖主义，小说人物所谈内容基本属实。针对美国和欧洲发生重大生物恐怖主义事件的可能性，侦探卢索达洛发表的一番评论最扣人心弦：问题不是到底会不会发生，而是什么时候发生。

凯西•莱克斯Kathy Reichs（1950— ） 凯西•莱克斯出生于芝加哥，在西北大学获得博士学位。身兼美国北卡罗来纳州医事检查处的刑事人类学家，以及加拿大魁北克省犯罪暨法医研究所的法医。她是全美刑事人类学协会十五名检定合格的法医之一，也是美国法医科学协会的成员，并担任刑事审判的常任专家证人，此外，她还在北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校担任社会人类学教授，经常来回奔波于夏洛特和蒙特利尔两地。 她的第一本小说《听，骨头在说话》不但荣登《纽约时报》畅销排行榜，更荣获一九九七年的“阿瑟•埃利斯”最佳处女作小说奖。而后续的《死亡的颜色》、《致命的抉择》、《战栗的航程》、《墓穴的秘密》以及《白骨的阴谋》，本本均登上畅销排行榜，并成为国际级畅销书。

"Fans of TV's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" should be in heaven" ("People") stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.She has a passion for the truth . . . and this time, it's taking her down.A commercial airliner disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolina mountains as a...(展开全部)

Temperance Brennan hears the news on her car radio. An Air TransSouth flight has gone down, taking with it eighty-eight passengers and crew. As a forensic anthropologist and a member of the regional DMORT team, Tempe rushes to the scene to assist in body recovery and identification. She finds a field of carnage: torsos in trees, limbs strewn among bursting suitcases and smold...(展开全部)