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Book ID/图书代码： 03540005B06420

English Summary/英文概要： An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers’ detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love...Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there’s the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 非法入境者在爱丁堡的一起住宅建筑方案中被谋杀：是种族主义者的攻击，或完全是另外一种纯粹的谋杀？卢布思被卷入了这起案件中，但其他的问题也随之付出水面：他昔日的警署已被阻隔在外，而曾经的老上司也情愿能他能正常退休，不要纠结于此案。但生性顽固的卢布思怎肯就此罢休。随着他的深入调查，他必须访问寻求庇护者的拘留中心，应付爱丁堡黑社会的最为不堪的一幕、也许甚至会堕入爱河... 与此同时卢布思的同事西沃恩，也有她自己的问题。一名少年从家里出走了，而西沃恩也陷入了家中的烦事之中，这将意味着旅行更为贴近健康，尤其是对被定罪的强奸犯的追踪。然后还有关于两个骨骼的小事件-一个是女人的，而另一个是婴儿的-他们被埋在人贩混凝土地窖的地板里。现场开始看起来像精致的特殊效果 — — 但谁，目的是什么？和它如何并绑定到一宗名为Knoxland谋杀案有何联系？ 《非常人贩》和读者们一同探索了当我们迷失在丑陋的本性之下时，社会传统道德将去向何方： 贪婪、怀疑、暴力和剥削。它还真实的国家的小说，也是卢布思最具个性特质的案件之一。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’Rankin makes sure (the Rebus novels) move with his society, growing into a richly-plotted and densely-textured portrait of modern Scotland and its ills’---THE INDEPENDENT

’A compelling, thought-provoking narrative of modern urban life’---SUNDAY TIMES

’Gripping’---DAILY EXPRESS

’A new Inspector Rebus novel is always worth celebrating...The tightly structured plot - this time revolving around the illicit trafficking of asylum seekers - is another plus. Thoughtful, topical and edgy’---Christina Koning THE TIMES

’Rankin’s 15th Edinburgh-based Rebus mystery shows he’s as sharp and chilling as ever’---DAILY MIRROR

’typically intelligent, complex and extremely gripping novel’---WOMAN & HOME

’Another cracker from Ian Rankin’---SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

’Rankin has no equal when it comes to revealing human prejudices, fear and ignorance’---GOOD BOOK GUIDE

About the Author/作者介绍： 伊恩•兰金，被誉为苏格兰黑色之王，当代最优秀的侦探小说家之一。 让人惊奇的不只是他踏入文坛的年龄，更特别的是，兰金在如此年轻的时候，却创造了一位四十一岁、离婚、酗酒而且烟瘾极大的雷布思警探，并把故事背景设定在复杂的警察世界之中，如果没有足够的文字功力，肯定无法在竞争激烈的英国大众文坛脱颖而出。这本兼具惊悚与悬疑气氛的警探小说深入描写了人类心理层次的黑暗面，加上鲜活的人物个性与深入贴近社会的叙事角度，引起了读者的巨大回响，也鼓舞兰金继续写下去，一写就是二十几个年头。迄今为止，他的十七本系列作品被翻译成三十一国文字出版，兰金也早已成为英国当代最重要的作家之一。 兰金在英国文坛的成就极高，曾获得声望卓著的钱德勒－富布赖特推理文学奖。他曾经四度获选英国犯罪小说作家协会匕首奖，其中《黑与蓝》（Black and Blue）荣获一九九七年英国犯罪小说作家协会金匕首奖，同时获得美国推理小说作家协会爱伦坡奖提名。一九九九年，《死灵魂》（Dead Souls）再获金匕首奖提名；二〇〇四年，《掘墓盗尸人》（Resurrection Men）夺得爱伦坡奖最佳小说奖；二〇〇五、二〇〇六年连续两年赢得英国国家图书奖年度犯罪惊悚小说奖。 二〇〇二年，兰金因其文学贡献获得大英帝国勋章；二〇〇五年获得英国犯罪小说作家协会颁予代表终身成就的钻石匕首奖，成为史上最年轻的钻石匕首奖得主；同年，兰金再获法国推理小说大奖、德国犯罪电影奖与苏格兰杰出人物奖，并于一九九九至二〇〇五年间获得四所大学的荣誉博士学位。 兰金目前与妻子跟两个儿子住在爱丁堡，与著名作家J. K.罗琳比邻而居。在完成“哈利•波特”系列之后，J.K.罗琳开始创作侦探小说，而兰金为她的创作提供了诸多帮助，被罗琳称作侦探小说创作上的领路人。

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for ’Resurrection Men’. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh. A contributor to BBC2’s ’Newsnight Review’, he also presented his own TV series, ’Ian Rankin’s Evil Thoughts’. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.

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