Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from mal...(展开全部)

Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from mal...(展开全部)

‘…Boca’s brilliant impossible crime novel... takes Paris sleuths Stéphane Triel and Luc Duthiel into some very dark waters when they accept the invitation of a stranger, Jeanne d’Arlon, to join her and her husband at Nanteuil Manor. On their arrival, Triel and Duthiel find that Benoît Gérapin, the nephew of the manor’s concierge, has apparently taken his own life; only Gérapin’...(展开全部)

A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal...A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over. Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious fr...(展开全部)

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass...(展开全部)

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass...(展开全部)

◾️【内容简介】 《The Book》是日本推理作家乙一根据漫画家荒木飞吕彦的漫画《JOJO的奇妙冒险》创作的一部全新长篇推理小说，故事由杜王町一只浑身沾满血的猫展开，四个不同角度的故事线逐渐汇集，构建起一个热烈而又悲戚的短暂人生。少年莲见琢马为给母亲飞来明里复仇而在杜王町展开了一系列行动，琢马拥有“替身使者”的奇特能力，使用这个能力的工具就是书中出现的“The Book”，他因为对妈妈遭受的屈辱痛苦感同身受，于是决定运用自己的能力为母亲复仇。少年广濑康一奔走调查，漫画家岸边露伴目睹着一切，少女双叶千帆用爱和善意陪伴着琢马，真相逐渐浮现，一出复仇悲剧铺展。 乙一用冷静的笔触呈现了双线并行的故事，带领读者进入他构建的异世界，随着真相的一点点揭秘，感受到故事中人物的辛酸悲苦和孤独无助。如同人类的善恶在一念之间，“The Book”的存在，可以仅仅是记忆的...(展开全部)

A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.