La troisième enquête du commissaire Verhoeven touche au plus secret de sa vie privée : témoin du hold-up d'une joaillerie des Champs Élysées, Anne Forestier, sa maîtresse, échappe par miracle à la fureur meurtrière du braqueur. De ce truand virtuose, assez rapidement identifié, Verhoeven connaît les habitudes et le mode opératoire. De la victime à demi morte, il ignore beaucoup...(展开全部)

皮耶尔•勒迈特 (Pierre Lemaitre) 当代法国推理大师，龚古尔文学奖得主，是历史上罕有的在推理小说与纯文学领域都获得至高荣誉的作家。1951年生于巴黎，曾担任文学讲师多年，后转为作家、编剧。 皮耶尔•勒迈特以推理小说蜚声国际文坛：他以《必须牺牲卡米尔》《必须找到阿历克斯》《天上再见》，三次荣获英国推理作家协会颁发的国际匕首奖。其中，《天上再见》更登顶法国文学高峰，荣获龚古尔文学奖。 2015年，他的系列作品终篇《必须牺牲卡米尔》荣获国际匕首奖，又于次年斩获日本《周刊文春》年度推理小说奖。《悉尼先驱晨报》盛赞道：“《必须牺牲卡米尔》是皮耶尔•勒迈特的又一部令人惊叹的法国推理杰作……这本书会让你一不小心就读了一个通宵。”

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has been reprieved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. At the cente of the story is Edin...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of this century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.The Death of the Heart, a story o...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白•鲍恩 Elizabeth Bowen，1899—1973 英国小说家，以其关于战时伦敦生活的小说而闻名。鲍恩于1899年出生于都柏林，中学时期就读肯特郡的唐屋中学。在伦敦艺术学校学习了一段时间后，她决定开始写作。1923年，出版短篇小说集《遭遇》（Encounters）。1937年，鲍恩成为爱尔兰文学院的一员。“二战”期间，鲍恩在伦敦的英国信息部工作，这段经历帮助她写出了关于战时伦敦生活最伟大的作品《炎热的一天》（In The Heat of the Day），1948年，她被授予大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）。 鲍恩一生创作了十部长篇小说、七十多个短篇小说，以及大量的文学评论和随笔。她的作品洞察入微，主要关注英格兰和爱尔兰中上阶层人群的情感和彼此之间的微妙关系。她早期创作的小说以机智和嘲弄著称，二十世纪三十年代之后的作品则表现出一种悲剧情感。...(展开全部)

It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her and looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser - her impossible lovingness...(展开全部)

With a new introduction by James Wood Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

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