KILLING THE SHADOWS

Book ID/图书代码： 05430005B11131

English Summary/英文概要： Stunning serial killer chiller from Britain’s most exciting author of psychological thrillers the award-winning Val McDermid ! ’a roaring Ferrari amid the crowded traffic on the crime-writing road’ Independent A killer is on the loose and he’s blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey -- the writers of crime novels. But this murderer is like no other; his bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate And for one woman the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to track serial offenders. She vowed never to work for the Met again after they went against her advice and badly screwed up an investigation as a result. But when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered, Fiona can’t help taking an interest. With the killer striking again, Fiona is caught up in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal and professional.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 菲欧娜.看梅伦是一位专业心理学家，她应用电脑技术帮助警方追踪系列犯罪分子。原先她是为大都市警察局工作的，但有一次他们不顾她的劝告，结果把调查搞得一团糟，她一气之下就发誓再也不为他们干了。现在她在托里多工作，心理仍记恨着那件事情。这时她的恋人、惊险小说家基特.马丁告诉她，他的一个犯罪小说家朋友被人谋杀了，尽管这不关她的事，她却禁不住好奇起来。不久这个犯罪分子又干了第二次，接着是第三次。菲欧娜决定与犯罪分子进行时间上的竞赛，不仅是为了救人性命，也是为了挽回职业上的面子。最后，追踪者被追踪者发生了紧张的冲突，而其中只有一个能取胜。

Awards/获奖情况："McDermid has become our leading pathologist of everyday evil... the subtle orchestration of terror is masterful" ---Guardian

Our culture’s obsession with serial killers as its own dark shadow sometimes obscures the fact that people kill for other reasons than sex. In Killing the Shadows Val McDermid’s new detective, academic psychologist Fiona Cameron, has become something of a maverick because of her insistence on using other sorts of profiling as well as the standard psycho-sexual ones; she has refused to work for the Metropolitan police any more because of a murder they failed to solve because they took another psychologist’s advice. Yet the woman murdered on Hampstead Heath preys on her conscience, along with her own murdered sister, as she works for the Spanish police on a killer who decorates the sights of Toledo with dead tourists. And then someone starts killing crime writers and Fiona’s lover Kit is on the killer’s list. Val McDermid’s ingenuity and solid sense of how crime and investigation works have made her one of the dominant figures in contemporary British crime writing. Killing the Shadows is one of her best books yet, both for its powerful critique of modern policing and for the serious questions it asks about our fascination with the deadliest of criminals. ---Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk Review

About the Author/作者介绍： Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester.
瓦尔.麦克德米德毕业于牛津大学，当过16年记者，现为职业作家。她写过十几本小说，1995年获得最佳犯罪小说奖。

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