THE ROSARY GIRLS : A KILLER HEARS THEIR PRAYERS
Book ID/图书代码： 01240005B01469
English Summary/英文概要： Sprawling beneath the statue of William Penn, Philadelphia is a city of downtrodden crack houses and upscale brownstones. Somewhere in this concrete crazy quilt, one teenage Catholic girl is writing in her diary, another is pouring her heart out to a friend, and yet another is praying. And somewhere in this city is a man who wants these young women to make his macabre fantasy become reality. In a passion play of his own, he will take the girls–and a whole city–over the edge.
Kevin Byrne is a veteran cop who already knows that edge: He’s been living on it far too long. His marriage failing, his former partner wasting away in a hospital, and his heart lost to mad fury, Byrne loves to take risks and is breaking every rule in the book. And now he has been given a rookie partner. Jessica Balzano, the daughter of a famous Philly cop, doesn’t want Byrne’s help. But they will need each other desperately, since they’ve just caught the case of a lifetime: Someone is killing devout young women, bolting their hands together in prayer, and committing an abomination upon their otherwise perfect bodies.
Byrne and Balzano spearhead the hunt for the serial killer, who leads them on a methodically planned journey. Suspects appear before them like bad dreams–and vanish just as quickly. And while Byrne’s sins begin to catch up with him, and Balzano tries to solve the blood-splattered puzzle, the body count rises. Meanwhile, the calendar is approaching Easter and the day of the resurrection. When the last rosary is counted, a madman’s methods will be revealed, and the final crime will be the one that hurts the most.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 以威廉·潘恩雕像为标志物的费城是一座极其矛盾的城市，既有残破、东倒西歪的民房，也有高档的褐沙石建筑。在这个疯狂的混凝土世界里，有一个信天主教的少女，正在写自己的日记，另一位少女则在向朋友倾述心声，还有一位则在默默地祈祷。而在另一处，有位心怀鬼胎的人想把利用这些无知的少女，实现她那可怕的幻想。在他自己策划的一场基督受难复活戏中，他要把这些女生----连带整个城市------推向边缘。
老警官Kevin Byrne早就熟悉了这样的边缘问题，他也一直生存在这样的边缘状况。虽然婚姻失败了，前任好搭档也在医院里奄奄一息了，人也变地近乎疯狂，但是Byrne却很爱冒险，不喜欢遵守书本中的条条框框。而现在他和新搭档Jessica Balzano----一位费城鼎鼎有名的警官女儿要接受一个千载难逢的案子：某位犯罪分子正对虔诚的少女们下毒手，把他们的手绑成祈祷的样式，并对这些少女发泄怨恨。
Byrne 和Balzano两人冲锋陷阵，追拿连环杀手，而这位狡猾的杀手却循循善诱，把他们慢慢引上了一条精心策划的行程。一个又一个嫌疑犯像梦魇般出现在他们面前，可又很快的消失。但是正当Byrne犯的一个有一个过失就快赶上连环杀手，而Balzano一心要解开这个喋血迷案时，尸体却一具又一具地冒出来。与此同时，日历也快翻到复活节，最后一本玫瑰经也要算上了，而疯子的那套所谓的审判不会结束，除非有人可以站出来阻止他的邪恶、凶残的行动。
《玫瑰经女生》情节紧凑，叙述生动，算得上是一部睿智、情感复杂 、极其扣人心弦的惊悚小说。作者Richard Montanari敢于冒险、大胆尝试新的手法，所以会让读者有一种意犹未尽的感觉。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 理查•蒙塔納裡是一位小說家、劇作家以及評論家。他的作品出現在《芝加哥論壇報》、《底特律自由報》和《克利夫蘭老實人報》等全國或地方報刊及出版物上。他的大部分膾炙人口的小說都成為了國際暢銷書，如《玫瑰經文》《惡魔之吻》《司庫基爾河邊的女屍》和《紫羅蘭時光》等。他住在美國俄亥俄州的克利夫蘭，他只欣賞拳擊藝術。享用義大利美食和觀看獨立電影公司的電影。RICHARD MONTANARI is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and scores of other national and regional publications. He is the OLMA-winning author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers Kiss of Evil, Deviant Way, and The Violet Hour–all published in more than twenty countries.
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