THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
Book ID/图书代码： 06830005B07296
English Summary/英文概要： Patricia MacDonald has won a worldwide audience of readers with her page-turning novels of domestic suspense that twist and turn with surprises. Now she presents a riveting thriller about a young woman who finds her life threatened when she returns to her picture-perfect suburban hometown where a brutal crime shattered her family when she was a teenager.
The affluent town of Hoffman, New Jersey reeled in disbelief when highly esteemed physician Duncan Avery stabbed his wife Marsha to death one spring evening. The two Avery sons turned their backs on their father but his daughter Nina never stopped believing in his innocence.Now, fifteen years later, Nina, a struggling actress in New York City, returns to Hoffman when her father is paroled and insists on re-settling there. Not only does Dr. Avery want to repair his relationships with his sons and meet his grandchildren, he claims he wants to find out who killed his wife. But neither Nina’s brother Patrick, a successful investment banker with a wife and twin sons, nor Jimmy, a recovering drug addict who has adopted a new family, can bear to acknowledge their father’s return.
Then, as suddenly as before, another act of violence overturns the Averys’ lives.
No longer certain if she can trust her family, her neighbors, or her old friends, Nina finds she can rely only on herself and a surprising new ally in her life as she searches for the truth behind crimes past and present. If she digs deep-down into the secrets of her family’s and her neighbors’ lives she stands a chance of catching a killer before she becomes his next victim. With psychologically perceptive characterizations, emotional realism, and a gripping story line, The Girl Next Door exposes the dark impulses and fierce passions that can rule seemingly ordinary people and showcases Patricia MacDonald at the height of her celebrated powers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十五年前, 住在新澤西優渥小鎮的名醫艾弗利刺殺了自己的妻子。艾弗利的兩個兒子因此選擇離他而去 只有女兒妮娜始終堅信父親是清白的…
十五年後, 艾弗利假釋出獄，並想要挽回與兩個兒子的關係, 並試圖要和妮娜找出殺害妻子的真兇。
然而, 又一樁兇殺案發生，並危及到艾弗利一家的生活。妮娜知道如果不快一點找出這兩宗命案的事實真相, 她將會是兇手的下一個目標…(stella & Jennifer)
Awards/获奖情况：美國主流書評一致讚譽
法國銷售排行榜第一的作家 版權已售: 日本 Fushosha, 希臘 Akti-Oxy
Reviews
Nina Avery is taking a break from her acting "career" (she survives on bit parts in soaps and the occasional commercial) so that she can help her father adjust to life on the outside. Nina was only 16 when she found her mother dead, stabbed with a kitchen knife. But Nina’s father, Duncan, a doctor, found her first, and he was implicated, charged, and eventually convicted of murdering his wife. Nina never thought he was guilty, unlike her older brother, Patrick. Nina’s other brother, Jimmy, is only now recovering from the drug and alcohol abuse that gave him solace after losing his mother to death and his father to jail. Duncan insists on returning home, but the small town isn’t ready to forgive and forget. Then more tragedy forces Nina to dig further into the death of her mother. MacDonald, the master of the small-town tragedy, delivers another sure winner.---Mary Frances Wilkens, Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍： Patricia MacDonald’s suspenseful, intricately plotted tales have won her a wide audience acrosss America, as well as France, where she is a #1 bestselling author. Her previous novels include Not Guilty, Stranger in the House, Lost Innocents, Secret Admirer, and the Edgar Award-nominated The Unforgiven. She lives with her husband and daughter in New Jersey, where she is working on her next novel.
Patricia MacDonald精彩的驚悚小說以細膩的人物心理描寫，真實的感情流露，征服了全世界無數的讀者。
在法國她榮登暢銷書作者排行榜第一名。她之前的作品包括Not Guilty, Stranger in the House, Lost Innocents, Secret Admirer, 和美國推理作家協會, 愛德格獎提名小說The Unforgiven。
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