SLEEPING IN THE GROUND
Book ID/图书代码： 03880017C00003
English Summary/英文概要： MICHAEL CONNELLY calls Peter Robinson "an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail."
See why in Sleeping in the Ground, the gripping new novel starring Alan Banks — featuring an opening scene you’ll never forget, and a finale you won’t see coming.
At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over.
Except it isn’t. For Alan Banks, still struggling with a tragic loss of his own, there’s something wrong about this case — something unresolved. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the relentless detective deeper into the crime... deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks thought he knew about the events outside that chapel.
And when at last the shocking truth becomes clear, it’s almost too late.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 约克郡教堂外的婚礼发生大规模枪杀事件，为畅销书作家Robinson提供了写作灵感，诞生了24部引人入胜的小说。之后，包括新娘在内的三名人员当场死亡，另两人抢救无效死亡。Fuller、Banks和 Annie Cabbot 一同调查案件， 他们试图描绘出抢手的画像，然而，他们却发现了更大的疑团，包括与几十年前另一桩案件的关联。读者可能会觉得Banks并未找到事件的核心，他一直纠结于很久以前失去的爱人，然而，随着故事的展开，他仍旧是犯罪小说里的强大力量。
一起谋杀案中断了圣玛丽教堂的婚礼，也让 Alan Banks 从失去初恋的悲痛中醒来。杀手持有AR15枪械，杀害了新娘，伴娘以及新郎的父亲，新郎和另一名伴娘不久也因抢救无效死亡，致使五人死亡，四人受伤。有证人提供信息， 令Banks 和 Annie Cabbot 怀疑退休牙医Martin Edgeworth，Martin 似乎符合抢手的所有特征。然而Edgeworth的自杀令调查又回到了原点。杀手不是因为一时头脑发热而犯罪，而是蓄谋已久、精心策划的一场谋杀。当Geraldine Masterson无视Banks的命令，与杀手直接对抗、希望能够拯救另一名受害者时，整个调查过程出现了转机……（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：MICHAEL CONNELLY评论Peter Robinson是“一名极具共鸣的作家，擅长对话和细节。”
在《露宿街头》中，全新的精彩小说以Alan Banks为主人公，故事开头令人印象深刻，故事结尾却令人无法预料。
在美丽的教堂门口，一场枪杀破坏了整个婚礼，随之而来的是大规模的追杀和逮捕。罪魁祸首被抓获。故事结束了……
The mass shooting of a wedding party outside a Yorkshire church propels bestseller Robinson’s intriguing but slow-burning 24th novel featuring Det. Supt. Alan Banks (after 2016’s When the Music’s Over). In the aftermath, three people are dead, including the bride, and two more later succumb to their wounds. Banks bristles a bit when his boss brings in a profiler, especially when he discovers that it’s forensic psychologist Jenny Fuller, for whom he used to hold a torch. Together, Fuller, Banks, and Banks’s lead detective, Det. Sgt. Annie Cabbot, try to paint a picture of the gunman, but even when they come up with a credible suspect, the discovery only leads to a maze of further possibilities, including motives that have their start decades earlier in connection to another crime. The reader may feel that Banks is too much on the periphery, dealing with the loss of a long-ago lover, as the complex story unfolds around him, but he’s still a mighty force to be reckoned with in crime fiction.
DS Alan Banks is snapped out of mourning his long-ago first love by a particularly nasty murder spree that interrupts the nuptials at St. Mary’s Church. Murder waits on no copper, and Banks (When the Music’s Over, 2016, etc.) must put aside his grief over Emily Hargreaves’ loss to cancer as he seeks the person who’s opened fire on the wedding party of Laura Tindall and Benjamin Kemp. The gunman, equipped with an AR15, kills the bride, her maid of honor, and the father of the groom outright; their wounds neglected by protocols that keep medical personnel from the scene until an armed response team can secure it, the groom and another bridesmaid soon succumb as well, raising the toll to five dead and four wounded, one of them DS Winsome Jackman. A providential witness supplies enough information to send Banks and DI Annie Cabbot, whose father, bohemian artist Ray Cabbot, is crashing with Banks while he looks for new digs, to retired dentist Martin Edgeworth, who seems to tick every box for the shooter—owning an AR15, driving a black RAV4, belonging to a gun club, and shot to death himself. But pathologist Dr. Glendenning’s warning that Edgeworth’s obvious suicide may actually be murder sends the investigation back to square one, with one additional caveat: the killer is no temperamental hothead but someone who’s clearly been planning this massacre for a long time. The usual patient, thorough investigation takes a predictable turn awry when rookie DC Geraldine Masterson ignores Banks’ orders and confronts the killer in the hope of saving still another victim—a confrontation whose outcome Robinson’s willingness to kill off cast members like Emily Hargreaves leaves in serious doubt. Robinson’s interrogations, many of them conducted in pubs, have the rare quality of steadily illuminating and thickening both the speakers and their subjects. The result is a slow-burning intensity that deepens from beginning to end.
2018 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing WINNERS BEST CRIME NOVEL
About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Robinson 的获奖小说被《出版人周刊》誉为本年度最棒的图书，被《纽约时报》誉为出色的图书，被《人民杂志》誉为最为引人入胜的著作。Robinson 在约克郡出生并长大，在北美居住过25年。目前他一半时间在北美一半时间在英国。
Peter Robinson’s award-winning novels have been named a Best-Book-of-the-Year by Publishers Weekly, a Notable Book by the New York Times, and a Page-Turner-of-the-Week by People magazine. Robinson was born and raised in Yorkshire but has lived in North America for over twenty-five years. He now divides his time between North America and the U.K.
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