在线阅读本书 Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freel...(展开全部)

From the witty author of Nice Work comes a story of a group of British tourists whose trip to Hawaii isn't quite what anyone bargained for. "Wonderfully entertaining . . . a welcome addition to a rich and diverting oeuvre".-- New York Times Book Review.

Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Fac...(展开全部)

Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Fac...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Crime Reconstruction is a working guide to the interpretation of physical evidence, designed for the forensic generalist and those with multiple forensic specialties. It was developed to aid these forensic reconstructionists with the formulation of hypotheses and conclusions that stay within the known limits of forensic evidence. Crime Reconstruction begins with...(展开全部)

The jolting debut collection of stories from one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, based on his own experience in court and as a close observer of the criminal mind and motive. The narrator of the nine stories in Crime is coolly intelligent, yet full of compassion for the worldweary, lonely, sometimes foolish characters who populate its pages. Among the cast of ...(展开全部)

The jolting debut collection of stories from one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, based on his own experience in court and as a close observer of the criminal mind and motive. The narrator of the nine stories in Crime is coolly intelligent, yet full of compassion for the worldweary, lonely, sometimes foolish characters who populate its pages. Among the cast of ...(展开全部)

举世最杰出的推理小说作家 迈克尔•康奈利（Michael Connelly），1957年生于美国费城，在佛罗里达大学主修新闻学，毕业后在多家报纸当过记者，曾入围1986年普利策新闻奖。 自1992年凭借《黑色回声》获得爱伦•坡奖最佳处女作奖后，康奈利一发不可收拾，连续创作了以“哈里•博斯”主角的侦探小说十余部及其他几部非本系列小说等，每一部叫好又叫座，不仅销量奇佳，被改编为多部电影，而且还荣获爱伦•坡奖、安东尼奖，尼罗•伍尔芙奖、夏姆斯奖、马耳他之鹰奖等各大推理小说奖项。 康奈利熟谙犯罪心理学，又有丰富的犯罪新闻采访经验，因此写起侦探小说可谓驾轻就熟。在他的生花妙笔之下，每一景每一物都栩栩如生，对读者具有强烈的感染力，连前美国总统克林顿都是他的忠实读者。康奈利曾担任美国推理作家协会主席，其作品在全球有31种语言译本，是当代最著名的叫好又叫座的侦探推理...(展开全部)

举世最杰出的推理小说作家 迈克尔•康奈利（Michael Connelly），1957年生于美国费城，在佛罗里达大学主修新闻学，毕业后在多家报纸当过记者，曾入围1986年普利策新闻奖。 自1992年凭借《黑色回声》获得爱伦•坡奖最佳处女作奖后，康奈利一发不可收拾，连续创作了以“哈里•博斯”主角的侦探小说十余部及其他几部非本系列小说等，每一部叫好又叫座，不仅销量奇佳，被改编为多部电影，而且还荣获爱伦•坡奖、安东尼奖，尼罗•伍尔芙奖、夏姆斯奖、马耳他之鹰奖等各大推理小说奖项。 康奈利熟谙犯罪心理学，又有丰富的犯罪新闻采访经验，因此写起侦探小说可谓驾轻就熟。在他的生花妙笔之下，每一景每一物都栩栩如生，对读者具有强烈的感染力，连前美国总统克林顿都是他的忠实读者。康奈利曾担任美国推理作家协会主席，其作品在全球有31种语言译本，是当代最著名的叫好又叫座的侦探推理...(展开全部)

Teun A. van Dijk：1943年生，阿姆斯特丹大学话语研究教授，分别获得阿姆斯特丹自由大学法语语言文学学士学位、阿姆斯特丹大学文学理论硕士学位和阿姆斯特丹大学语言学博士学位，曾在斯特斯堡、巴黎和伯克利作研究。早期研究文学语言学，很快转向“文本语法”和话语语用学，后与沃尔特·金什研究话语加工中的认知心理学。 中文简历：http://www.discourses.org/cv/Academic%20biography%20Teun%20A%20van%20Dijk%20in%20Chinese.pdf