当代法国侦探小说作家，硕果仅存的坚持本格侦探小说创作的欧美作家，被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。 霍尔特一九五六年出生于法国东北部亚尔萨斯省的阿格诺。一九八七年以《第四扇门》一书获得干邑侦探小说奖而正式出道。之后陆续创作以“阿兰•图威斯特博士”为主人公的系列作品及其他系列作品，代表作有《第七重解答》、《达特穆尔的恶魔》、《恶狼之夜》等。霍尔特的绝大多数作品都是描写不可能犯罪的正统解谜之作，以密室、不在场证明、足迹消失等核心诡计为卖点，凭借异想天开的构思、缜密的逻辑推导以及意料之外、情理之中的解答征服了广大读者，成为当代欧美侦探小说作家中最为“古典”、“另类”的一位，是当之无愧的当代本格侦探小说的领军人物。

让-克里斯托夫•吕芬(Jean-Christophe Rufin, 1952— )，法国作家、外交官。生于法国布尔日市，领导过多家人道主义机构，如“无国界医生”、“反饥饿行动”，并于2007年至2010年担任法国驻塞内加尔和冈比亚大使。这些经历激发他创作出内容丰富的作品，包括随笔《人道主义陷阱》和小说《埃塞俄比亚人》(1997年龚古尔文学奖)、《红色巴西》(2001年龚古尔文学奖)。2008年，他入选法兰西学院，接替亨利•特洛亚的席位，成为法兰西学院最年轻的院士。

Dans la chaleur d'une île grecque, un homme démêle l'écheveau de son destin. Fils d'un modeste pelletier, il est devenu l'homme le plus riche de France. Il a permis à Charles VII de terminer la guerre de Cent Ans. Il a changé le regard sur l'orient. Comme son palais à Bourges, château médiéval d'un côté et palais Renaissance de l'autre, c'est un être à deux faces. Aussi familie...(展开全部)

This is a vintage murder mystery. Private detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is invited to address the Maiden Astbury literary society. The picturesque Dorset town is home to Bunnett's Brewery, run by the much disliked, and feared, Eustace Bunnett and shortly before Nigel's visit, Bunnett's dog Truffles, was found dead in one of the brewery's vats. The culprit was never caugh...(展开全部)

"When David gets in trouble, he always says . . . 'NO! It's not my fault! I didn't mean to! It was an accident!'" Whatever the situation, David's got a good excuse. And no matter what he's done "wrong," it's never really his fault. Soon, though, David realizes that making excuses makes him feel bad, and saying he's sorry makes him feel better. Once again, David Shannon entertai...(展开全部)

大卫·香农(David Shannon) 1959年生于华盛顿，获帕萨迪纳艺术中心设计学院的美术艺术学位，擅长运用油画技法创作绘本，他的作品画面饱满、色彩浓郁，焕发出勃勃的生机。主要作品有《大卫，不可以》《大卫上学去》《大卫惹麻烦》《大卫，圣诞节到啦！》《小仙女艾丽斯》 等，曾获得凯迪克大奖、《纽约时报》年度绘本、美国图书馆协会好书奖等多项大奖。

David doesn't mean to get in trouble. It's not his fault most of the time, it's just an accident! or maybe he forgot something. Or some furniture got in the way. Once again, David Shannon proves he knows every excuse in the book-especially when faced with the age-old problem of dealing with grown-ups.

If you could do it all over again, would you? Should you? One man finds out in this finely observed, compulsively readable, and occasionally raunchy novel of marriage, sex, and dating for readers of Jonathan Franzen, Lauren Groff, and Tom Perrotta. Recently separated Toby Fleischman is suddenly, somehow—and at age forty-one, short as ever—surrounded by women who want him: women...(展开全部)

Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children...(展开全部)

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventiona...(展开全部)