Nobody wants to believe that Grace Peltier committed suicide: not Curtis, her father; not former U.S. Senator Jack Mercier; and not private detective Charlie Parker, who has been hired to investigate the circumstances of her death. But when a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of the Aroostook Baptists, a religious community that disappeared almost for...(展开全部)

John Connolly's "Every Dead Thing" and "Dark Hollow" were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" "(Publishers Weekly)" Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style.THE KILLING KINDWhen the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious co...(展开全部)

Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots ...(展开全部)

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故事讲述了小丑（Joker）的起源，通过闪回的方式展示了他从一个失败的喜剧演员变成哥谭市最臭名昭著的犯罪狂人的过程。小丑试图证明任何人只需要经历“一天的坏事”就会变得疯狂。他绑架了警察局长詹姆斯·戈登（James Gordon），并对他的女儿芭芭拉·戈登（Barbara Gordon）进行残忍的攻击，试图让戈登精神崩溃。与此同时，蝙蝠侠（Batman）竭尽全力阻止小丑的疯狂计划。 这本书不仅探讨了小丑的心理状态，还深入挖掘了蝙蝠侠与小丑之间复杂的关系。它被广泛认为是小丑的“终极”故事之一，也是最好的蝙蝠侠故事之一。

彼得·斯旺森（Peter Swanson），毕业于马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的三一学院和爱默生学院，取得创意写作、教育和文学学位。他的小说和诗歌曾经发表于《大西洋》（Atlantic）、《神秘-E》（Mysterical-E）、《词评》（Vocabula Review）和《扬基杂志》（Yankee Magazine）。和妻子以及一只猫，住在马萨诸塞州的萨默维尔，潜心创作。

故事讲述了小丑（Joker）的起源，通过闪回的方式展示了他从一个失败的喜剧演员变成哥谭市最臭名昭著的犯罪狂人的过程。小丑试图证明任何人只需要经历“一天的坏事”就会变得疯狂。他绑架了警察局长詹姆斯·戈登（James Gordon），并对他的女儿芭芭拉·戈登（Barbara Gordon）进行残忍的攻击，试图让戈登精神崩溃。与此同时，蝙蝠侠（Batman）竭尽全力阻止小丑的疯狂计划。 这本书不仅探讨了小丑的心理状态，还深入挖掘了蝙蝠侠与小丑之间复杂的关系。它被广泛认为是小丑的“终极”故事之一，也是最好的蝙蝠侠故事之一。

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a cr...(展开全部)

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a cr...(展开全部)

Count Dracula meets Bonnie Parker. What will they do together? The vampire you'd hate to love, sinister and debonair, sinks those eye teeth into Bonnie's succulent throat.' Is this the beginning of a sadistic relationship or simply an extract from a psychopath's diary? Either way it marks the beginning of a dangerous game that is destined to end in chilling terror and bloody mu...(展开全部)