DAMNATION FALLS

Book ID/图书代码： 06580007B11508

English Summary/英文概要： Randall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim’s Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall’s boyhood friend, whose own career is under a shadow and who needs a ghost-written autobiography to ease his way back into politics. Randall encounters Faye McMahan, Sonny’s mother, who is addled with age, imagining that her dead husband is alive and worrying that her son might be in danger. Hours later, amid a violent autumn storm, Randall finds Faye murdered, hanging by the neck from a bridge over the town landmark called Damnation Falls. Within days, a second murder, even more grisly than the first, targets another member of the McMahan clan. And the bones of a third, long-buried murder victim –a young woman—emerge from the earth. Randall has ties to all the victims, and the murders force him to acknowledge debts that go back decades. Drawing on his investigative skills and his roots in the region, he sets out to discover who is behind the killings. His search takes him from the flatlands of the Mississippi delta to the Great Smoky Mountains in the east. Tennessee is a state that was split by the Civil War, where history still lies close to the surface, and tales of murder and betrayal have weighed heavily on the town of Pilgrim’s Rest. Before all the answers are in, more people will die, an old score will be settled, and the dead will finally tell their stories.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Randall Wilkes的事业毁于一旦，所以他只能回到自己20多年前出生成长的地方田纳西州山城去，为自己儿时的伙伴Sonny McMahan代写，这份工作待遇丰厚，但没什么名气。Sonny是前任州长，需要代写者为他出版自传，重返政坛。Randall遇到了Saonny的母亲Faye，年纪大了，脑子也不太清楚了，总是觉得自己的老公还活着，还总担心儿子有危险。几小时后，一场秋天的飓风后，Faye的尸体被发现挂在诅咒瀑布的桥上。几天后，发生了第二桩更为可怕的谋杀案，而死者也是 McMahan的家族成员。第三个死者是个年轻女人，其实死于很多年前，她的尸骨也被人从地里挖出，曝尸荒野。这些死者Randall都认识，这些凶杀案迫使他开启尘封已久的记忆。Randall利用他的调查技巧和对此处地形的熟悉，一步步接近凶案的谜底。他的调查使他从密西西比三角洲平原查到东部的大烟山。田纳西这个洲因为内战的关系而分崩离析，这块地方的历史似乎还历历在目，有关谋杀和背叛的传说还萦绕在此处上空。在谜底揭晓前，还会有更多的人要死，诅咒无法解开，死者将他们的故事缓缓讲述。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：“《诅咒瀑布》是一部糅合了秘密和回忆的佳作，最好的故事发生在历史和真理碰撞的地方，Edward Wright深谙此道，我已经读完这本了，而且迫不及待地想看下一部了。“——Michael Koryta，作品有《悲伤的国歌》和《欢迎来到坟墓》。

“想象一下最好的旅游作家Pete Dexter和Joe Lansdale联合协作有关探索新南部的故事，可能都比不上这部《诅咒瀑布》。他的语言是那么扣人心弦。”——Ken Bruen，作品有《守护者》、《剧作家》和《牧师》

“欣赏《诅咒瀑布》是很享受的事，就像是在夏日的夜晚品着酒在门廊前看着飞屋的萤火虫。角色和场景的设置都很到位，有心思。”——Dan Fesperman，作品有《业余间谍》、《关塔那摩的囚犯》和《督军的儿子》

“在你读完《诅咒瀑布》后，你好像觉得还可以闻到，听到，感受到田纳西山城的一草一木和那边的人们。Edward Wrigh糅合了很多元素在里面，谋杀案的阴森，政治的腐败，内战的历史和美好的初恋都成为了连接过去与现在的纽带。”——Naomi Hirahara，凭借《蛇皮》获得埃德加奖

“Edward Wrigh审视了东部田纳西的发展历程。这部小说对于角色平衡的把握很好，悬疑气氛恰如其分，让人爱不释手。”——P.T. Deutermann，作品有《猫舞者》，《蜘蛛山》和《月池》

About the Author/作者介绍： Edward Wright在阿肯色州出生长大，后在田纳西州和伊利诺伊州上学。他曾是美国海军官员，后任“芝加哥论坛报”和“洛杉矶时报”的编辑。他的John Ray Horn系列悬疑小说，《克丽的月亮》，《当我消失的时候》（英国出版命名为《银色的脸》）和《红色天空的挽歌》，这三部都将故事设置在上世纪40年代的洛杉矶，这个系列的小说赢得了美国的夏姆斯奖和英国历史罪案埃利斯•彼得斯奖。他的第一部非系列小说《诅咒瀑布》，是一部设置在现代田纳西州的惊悚小说，荣获巴里奖。而他的最新小说，《血》被评为伦敦“金融时报”最佳悬疑小说之一，定于2012年在美国出版。虽然现在和妻子卡西住在加利福尼亚州，洛杉矶地区，但他还保留着南方人的爱好，喜欢烧烤和蓝调音乐。详情请见edwardwrightbooks.com

Edward Wright grew up in Arkansas and went to school in Tennessee and Illinois. He has been an officer in the U.S. Navy and an editor at the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. His noir-flavored mysteries featuring John Ray Horn -- "Clea’s Moon," "While I Disappear" (U.K. title: "The Silver Face"), and "Red Sky Lament" -- set in Los Angeles during the 1940s, have won the Shamus Award in the U.S. and the Debut Dagger and Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award in the U.K. His first non-series book, "Damnation Falls," a contemporary mystery-thriller set in small-town Tennessee, won the Barry Award. His latest novel, "From Blood," was named one of the best mysteries of the year by the Financial Times of London, and a U.S. edition is due in 2012. Although now a Californian, he retains a Southerner’s love of barbecue and bluegrass music. He and his wife, Cathy, live in the Los Angeles area. edwardwrightbooks.com

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