BURNT ISLAND
Book ID/图书代码： 12691017C00003
English Summary/英文概要： Autumn is just beginning when a skeleton is found on St Agnes, the smallest inhabited Scilly Island. At first no one is surprised by the discovery: the Cornish archipelago has long been described as the Isles of the Dead, with the densest concentration of Bronze Age burial chambers in Britain. Local archaeologist Suzanne Carnew finds the remains, near the Giant’s Grave, a massive granite outcrop which dominates the island and was a prehistoric gravesite for millennia. But the island’s small, fiercely independent community is torn apart when a pathologist confirms that the woman’s remains are less than twenty years old. DI Ben Kitto must discover the woman’s identity, but soon Carnew is found drowned in St Warna’s Well, a sacred spring used by the Christian community from the 6th Century onwards.
Back at home on Bryher Ben is facing his own issues. His godmother Maggie Trelawney can’t decide whether to marry her partner Billy, and his friend Zoe is longing for a baby. After a succession of failed relationships she has been considering using a sperm donor, instead of waiting to find a partner. She asks Ben to father her child, as an act of friendship, leaving him with a tough personal decision.
Ben’s investigation into the death on St Agnes reveals that Dr Carnew had many enemies. The island’s inhabitants saw her excavation of sacred sites as an act of desecration. The eccentric, self-appointed mayor, Simon Pelistry has fought a legal battle to stop the dig, claiming that the ancient dead whose bodies surround the Devil’s Punchbowl and the Giant’s Grave should not be disturbed. The archaeologist had been having an affair with Jonathan Dawes, an architect, whose marriage to the manager of the island’s childcare centre breaks down when their relationship is exposed. Carnew’s husband Paul Gough, a novelist, seems maddened his wife’s death and is taken to hospital. Almost every family is affected by her murder. Many disliked Carnew’s arrogant manner, but the investigation struggles to pinpoint who hated the archaeologist enough to commit murder. In the meantime, the skeleton she found lies in the mortuary on St Mary’s. Ben is certain that whoever killed Suzanne Carnew believed she knew something incriminating about the original death. When it emerges that the twenty year old remains belong to Laura Porthmore, a historian, believed drowned, the two women’s lives have many parallels. Both were experts on local folklore, and engaged in secret love affairs. Ben must discover whether someone killed the women for probing too deeply into the island’s ancient secrets, or their own acts of infidelity.
When a series of devastating fires ravage the remote island of St Agnes, DI Kitto must find the arsonist, who must be one of the island’s 80 inhabitants. First the charred body of an astronomer who had been building an observatory on St Agnes is found in a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Night, then the home of a famous sculptor is razed to the ground. Someone is attacking incomers, and using the medium of fire to remove every trace of evidence. When the baby of Kitto’s deputy is kidnapped, the detective must battle with a smart and highly organised killer, before the child’s life is taken.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 秋天刚刚开始，在锡利岛最小的岛屿圣阿格尼斯发现了一具骨架。起初，没有人对这一发现感到惊讶:康沃尔群岛长期以来被描述为死亡之岛，英国青铜时代墓室的密度最高。当地考古学家苏珊娜•卡纽在巨人墓附近发现了这些遗骸，这是一块巨大的花岗岩露头，统治着该岛，是一个史前墓穴，已有数千年的历史。但是，当一位病理学家证实这名妇女的遗体不到20岁时，这个小岛上极其独立的小团体就分崩离析了。迪本•基托必须找到这个女人的身份，但很快卡纽就被发现淹没在圣瓦尔纳井中，圣瓦尔纳井是公元6世纪以来基督教社区使用的一个圣泉。
回到布赖厄的家里，本也面临着自己的问题。他的教母玛吉•特里劳妮无法决定是否要嫁给她的伴侣比利，而他的朋友佐伊渴望有个孩子。在经历了一系列失败的恋情后，她一直在考虑找一个捐精者，而不是等着找一个伴侣。她要求本做她孩子的父亲，作为一种友好的行为，留给他一个艰难的个人决定。
本对圣艾格尼丝之死的调查显示，卡纽博士有很多敌人。岛上的居民认为她挖掘圣地是一种亵渎行为。古怪的、自封为市长的西蒙•佩利斯特里发起了一场法律战，要求停止挖掘，他声称，不应该打扰那些被魔鬼的潘趣酒碗和巨人的坟墓包围的古代死者。这位考古学家与建筑师乔纳森•道斯有过一段风流韵事。当两人的关系曝光后，道斯与岛上托儿所经理的婚姻破裂。卡纽的丈夫保罗•高夫是一名小说家，他似乎对妻子的死感到愤怒，并被送往医院。几乎每个家庭都受到她被谋杀的影响。许多人不喜欢卡纽傲慢的态度，但调查很难确定到底是谁对这位考古学家恨之入骨，以至于谋杀了他。与此同时，她发现的骸骨就躺在圣玛丽医院的太平间里。本确信无论是谁杀了苏珊娜•卡纽，她都相信她对最初的死亡有一定的了解。当发现这具20岁的遗骸属于历史学家劳拉•波斯莫尔时，她相信这具遗骸是被淹死的，这两位女性的生活有很多相似之处。两人都是当地民间传说方面的专家，都有过秘密恋情。本必须发现是否有人杀了这些女人，因为他们对岛上古老的秘密进行了过于深入的调查，还是他们自己的不忠行为导致的。
当一系列毁灭性的大火肆虐偏远的圣阿格尼斯岛时，迪基托必须找到纵火犯，他一定是岛上80名居民之一。先是在盖伊•福克斯之夜的篝火中发现了一位天文学家烧焦的尸体，这位天文学家曾在圣阿格尼斯建立了一座天文台，然后一位著名雕塑家的家被夷为平地。有人正在攻击闯入者，并使用火媒来清除所有证据的痕迹。当基托的副手的婴儿被绑架，侦探必须与一个聪明和高度组织的杀手战斗，在孩子的生命被夺走之前。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：Praise for the HELL BAY series:
The Guardian: “Beautifully written and expertly plotted, this is a masterclass”
Sunday Express: “Rhodes does a superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secrets, with an uplifting evocation of setting”
Metro: “Expertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing story”
About the Author/作者介绍： 凯特•罗兹在埃塞克斯大学获得美国文学博士学位，之后在英国和美国教授英国文学。凯特现在是全职作家，和丈夫、作家兼艺术家戴夫•佩斯科住在剑桥。凯特在成为犯罪小说作家之前，是一名获奖诗人。她定期为《每日电讯报》、《星期日邮报》和《快报》等报纸撰写社论和短篇小说。2014年5月，凯特获得了由慈善机构互动组织颁发的露丝•伦德尔短篇小说奖。Kate Rhodes is the bestselling author of the DI Ben Kitto series, set in the Isles of Scilly, which has been optioned for TV by Two Cities. She is a prize-winning poet and crime writer, currently living in Cambridge. The latest book in the Ben Kitto series is Burnt Island.
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