THE MERMAIDS SINGING

Book ID/图书代码： 05430007B12716

English Summary/英文概要： Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one’s different - this one’s on the loose.

In the northern town of Bradfield four men have been found mutilated and tortured. Fear grips the city; no man feels safe.

Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is brought in to profile the killer. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill’s own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer’s motives. It’s also made him the perfect victim.

A man with more than enough sexual problems of his own, Tony himself becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of wits and wills where he has to use every ounce of his professional skill and personal nerve to survive.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 迄今为止，Tony Hill遇见的连环杀手都在受到严密的控制监视，只有这个例外，依然逍遥法外。

在Bradfield的北镇上，已发现有四具尸体被残忍分尸。恐惧占据着这里的镇民，他们感受不到任何的安全感。

临床心理学家Tony Hill开始分析追查这名作案者，这对Tony而言并不难，因为自己的过去让他很容易就能理解杀手的作案动机。同时，也让自己成为最合适的受害者。在破案过程中，Tony无疑成为杀手的目标，他们斗智斗勇，步步为营。Tony必须运用专业技巧和敏感的神经来打败对手，获取生存权。(YM)

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About the Author/作者介绍： VAL McDERMID grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Her most recent novel, A PLACE OF EXECUTION, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Val McDERMID在苏格兰某个煤矿区长大，随后到牛津学习英语。她担任记者工作有16年之久，目前住在曼彻斯特南部从事全职写作。1995年，作者获取年度最佳犯罪小说金匕首奖。作者最新小说A Place of Execution获得《洛杉矶时报》图书奖，埃德加最佳小说提名奖，并被列入《纽约时报》最受关注图书之一。

作者个人网页：http://www.valmcdermid.com/index.html

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