THE ART OF DROWNING

Book ID/图书代码： 11701206B02846

English Summary/英文概要： As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she’d got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she’s a grandmother, her dreams as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet every day. Then her son Ross, a researcher working for an arms manufacturer in Switzerland, is forced to disappear before some characters cut from the same cloth as Blofeld persuade him to part with the secrets of his research. But they are not the only ones desperate to locate him. A team of security experts is hired by Ross’s firm: headed by the enigmatic Bett, his staff have little in common apart from total professionalism and a thorough disregard for the law. Bett believes the key to Ross’s whereabouts is his mother, and in one respect he is right, but even he is taken aback by the verve underlying her determination to secure her son’s safety as she learns the black arts of quiet subterfuge and violent attack. The teenage dreams of fast cars, high-tech firepower and extreme action had always promised to be fun and games, but in real life it’s likely someone is going to lose an eye ...

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 蕾切尔•窦尔是处于人生低潮期的生性腼腆的会计，当她在上夜校时遇见了充满魅力的艾薇•施耐德，她的生活就此发生了改变。艾薇是她个性的另一面：这是一位有着浪漫情怀的一位有着六年毒瘾史，失去了自己孩子和无处为家的坚强女人。艾薇做着轮班家政女佣的工作，她对生活中的一切事物都充满着感恩之情；如同她住在天鹅湖畔的破旧房子里，在农场耕作的父母一样，在湖里躺着曾被淹死的女儿。当蕾切尔渐渐和这家人熟络时，她了解到艾薇是如何嫁给卡尔，一个二战战俘的儿子，以及他们这场婚姻背后的真相，一位野心勃勃的律师为了能当上法官是如何抛妻弃子，将自己孩子的生死置之于不顾。蕾切尔决意要为艾薇儿讨回公道…… (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Awards

Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1990) : A Question of Guilt Dagger Awards
Best Novel nominee (2006) : Safer Than Houses
Dagger Awards: Best Novel nominee STARING AT THE LIGHT (1999)
Dagger Awards: Silver Dagger DEEP SLEEP (1998)

About the Author/作者介绍： 弗朗西斯•法斐徳（生于1948年11月18日），是一位英国律师兼犯罪小说作家。
在英国德比郡长大的弗朗西斯，在纽卡斯尔大学就读英语系之前，大部分时间都在修道院学院渡过。毕业后，她学修了刑法。最初弗朗西斯在伦敦警察厅工作，后来去了皇家检察署。弗朗西斯自称“在历经了那段长时间的刑法磨砺后，激励了作者动笔将这些故事付诸于页面之上。我本想写一些浪漫小说，但身边的发生的累累罪案让我一直无法适从。”法斐徳的犯罪小说还赢得了无数奖项，其中包括她在2008年发表的《石中血》所夺得的犯罪小说作家协会的邓肯•罗利匕首奖，以及她的另外一部《沉睡》也夺得的银匕首奖。除此之外，她在2006年发表的《房产之争》也获得了邓肯•罗利匕首奖提名。
弗朗西斯也一直撰写心理惊悚类小说，她的小说已经被译成十四种不同国家的语言，有些作品甚至被搬上了荧幕。法斐徳最为热捧的作品是，海伦•韦斯特系列小说，这部系列作品曾两度翻拍成电视屏幕，并大获成功。

Frances Fyfield (born 18 November 1948) is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty. Fyfield is a British lawyer and crime-writer.
Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Frances Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduation, she took a course in criminal law. She worked initially for the Metropolitan Police and later the Crown Prosecution Service. She claims "After a long diet of criminal law, including dangerous dogs, rape, mayhem and much, much murder, the indigestion of pity and fury provoked me to write. I wanted to write romance, but the domestically macabre always got in the way." Fyfield has won several awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Blood From Stone in 2008 and the Silver Dagger for Deep Sleep.
In addition the novel Safer than Houses was nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2006. She also writes psychological thrillers under the name of Frances Hegarty, among them, The Playroom, Half Light and Let’s Dance, which was published in 1995. Her novels have been translated in fourteen different languages, and a number have been adapted for television. The most popular of Fyfield’s novels, the Helen West series, have twice been adapted for television. Juliet Stevenson played Helen West in Trial by Fire (1999) and Amanda Burton later took on the role in a successful British television series in 2002.

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