Aberdeen is the Granite City. Even in the twenty-first century when concrete, steel and glass are more likely to be the building materials of choice, the centre of Aberdeen still proudly show

史都華．麥克布萊德 Stuart MacBride 和妻子費歐娜住在蘇格蘭東北部，同住的還有他們的貓格蘭蒂爾、一百萬隻蜘蛛（尚未命名），以及一塊長滿野草的蔬菜田（取名為法蘭克）。 麥雷警佐系列為他贏得了英國犯罪作家協會的匕首獎，並被巴瑞獎遴選為最佳處女作，英國第六大電視頻道ITV3的犯罪驚悚獎將他選為最佳突破性作者。麥雷警佐系列也讓他登上了暢銷書第一名的寶座。 歡迎造訪史都華．麥克布萊德的網站：www.StuartMacBride.com

After a long recuperation from a stab wound, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae's first night back on duty in Aberdeen, Scotland, takes him to a crime scene where the body of a missing boy has been found on a riverbank. To the horror of even the most experienced cops on the job, all the details point to a ritualistic murder--a serial killer. Then twenty-four hours later, another ch...(展开全部)

史都華．麥克布萊德 Stuart MacBride 和妻子費歐娜住在蘇格蘭東北部，同住的還有他們的貓格蘭蒂爾、一百萬隻蜘蛛（尚未命名），以及一塊長滿野草的蔬菜田（取名為法蘭克）。 麥雷警佐系列為他贏得了英國犯罪作家協會的匕首獎，並被巴瑞獎遴選為最佳處女作，英國第六大電視頻道ITV3的犯罪驚悚獎將他選為最佳突破性作者。麥雷警佐系列也讓他登上了暢銷書第一名的寶座。 歡迎造訪史都華．麥克布萊德的網站：www.StuartMacBride.com

Ian Rankin and Michael Marshall are set to have their status challenged by debut Scottish author Stuart MacBride, an original and powerful new voice in thriller writing. It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead...(展开全部)

ALL true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.汇聚授权电子版权。

Written when women—and workers generally—had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governe...(展开全部)

Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Brontë. When Agnes’s father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living – as a governess. Working for the Bloomfields, her enthusiasm is soon dampened by isolation and the cruelty of the children in her charge. Agnes hopes for better in her second job, but when the sch...(展开全部)

This definitive edition of Anne Bronte's first novel incorporates her unpublished manuscript revisions, and incudes full textual apparatus and explanatory notes.

Agnes Grey is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-nineteenth century. This is a deeply personal novel written from the author's own experience and as such Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature dealing with the soc...(展开全部)