Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha do...(展开全部)

In a rural village deep in the mountains, mechanic Roy leads a quiet, simple life, but when his little brother, Carl, an entrepreneur, returns with a proposal for a grand hotel to revive the struggling town, dark secrets from their childhood threaten to resurface. As children, Roy defended his little brother against schoolyard bullies and vicious rumors, but his loyalty to fami...(展开全部)

作者介绍 尤·奈斯博，风靡世界的挪威作家，北欧犯罪小说大师，挪威图书畅销排行榜常客。屡获北欧犯罪小说大奖，包括玻璃钥匙奖、书店业者大奖等，还获得英国国际匕首奖和美国爱伦·坡奖提名，作品被翻译成50种语言，在50多个国家出版，销量突破5000万册。 奈斯博曾是挪威知名的摇滚明星，白天任职于金融业，利用晚上和周末时间演出。不久，他考得金融分析师执照，被挪威知名证券公司高薪挖走。然而工作和乐团越来越难以兼顾，濒临崩溃的奈斯博决定休半年长假。他带着笔记本电脑，跳上飞机，前往澳大利亚，在那里写下了日后让自己声名大噪的“哈利·霍勒警探”系列的第一部——《蝙蝠》。 奈斯博受到英美犯罪小说名家的一致拥戴，迈克尔·康奈利称赞他是“我至爱的惊悚作家”。评论家称他是“挪威犯罪书写的毕加索”。他的读者族群广泛，涵盖纯文学、冷硬推理、黑色小说，以及通俗惊悚小说爱好者。

In the mountains of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems. Set in a small town filled with secrets, this compellingly dark new thriller from the Sunday Times numb...(展开全部)

A fascinating but disturbing study of one of America’s greatest horror writers, the intense LOVECRAFT examines the bizarre life of author and recluse, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Since his early childhood in the late 1800’s Lovecraft was haunted with dark visions of demons and death. Trapped in a world of macabre creatures and grotesque thoughts, the writer found escap...(展开全部)

A fascinating but disturbing study of one of America’s greatest horror writers, the intense LOVECRAFT examines the bizarre life of author and recluse, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Since his early childhood in the late 1800’s Lovecraft was haunted with dark visions of demons and death. Trapped in a world of macabre creatures and grotesque thoughts, the writer found escap...(展开全部)

In this highly original novel Slauerhoff (1898-1936) reprises major themes from his poetry (erotic obsession, nomadism, persecution and confused identity) within a more ambitious formal framework. The book interweaves three narratives, separated in time but linked by a common association with the 'forbidden kingdom' of China. The first of these is the brutal and bloody founding...(展开全部)

Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a matinee-idol-handsome playboy, a major movie maker who bedded a long list of Hollywood glamour queens, a sexual sultan with a harem of teenage consorts, a political insider with intimate...(展开全部)

托马斯·W.汉肖（Thomas W. Hanshew，1857―1914），美国作家和演员，出生于纽约的布鲁克林。他十六岁时就登台演出，演艺生涯持续了一段时间后，他在伦敦与出版机构合作，开始了文学创作。其中，部分小说是他与妻子玛丽·E.汉肖共同完成的。他笔下最著名的人物是汉密尔顿·克里克侦探，这位侦探因为善于伪装而被称为“千面人”。

肯尼思•利布莱希特，就职于美国加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的加州理工大学，是一名物理系教授，在那里他学习了晶体生长的分子动力学，专攻冰晶如何由水蒸气生长出来，本质上这就是雪花的物理学。他曾经撰写过雪花这一主题的很多书， 堪称雪花界的大师。