BLOOD FROM STONE

Book ID/图书代码： 11701208B22543

English Summary/英文概要： When the body of a successful criminal barrister is found outside a chic Kensington hotel, it looks at first like a suicide. For colleagues and friends, her death comes as a huge shock - Marianne Shearer was at the pinnacle of her career, wealthy and stylish - but for the police the case is open-and-shut.

There’s something strange about the circumstances, though, something that prompts fellow lawyers Thomas Nobel and Peter Friel to dig deeper. Little by little, they discover that all is not as it seems. Oddly enough, Marianne herself appears to have left a series of small, almost imperceptible clues - clues that point to a far more sinister truth. Retracing Marianne’s steps, Nobel and Friel uncover a carefully concealed darker side of her perfect life that leads them back to her last, gruesome case - when she knowingly sacrificed an innocent witness to let a criminal walk free.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当你一贯表现优秀，麻烦就自然而然会找上你……

当一名成功的刑事犯罪律师的尸体在肯辛顿一家时髦的旅馆被发现时，现场的种种迹象都看起来像是一宗自杀案件。而对于死者的同事和朋友来说，这无疑是晴天霹雳，因为玛丽安·舒丽雅正处于事业，财富和时尚的顶峰，她没有任何自杀的理由。但对于警方来说，这却是一桩再简单不过的案子。
但是现场确实有一些奇怪的迹象，而这些蛛丝马迹则引导她的律师伙伴托马斯·诺贝尔和彼特·弗瑞尔一步步深入调查下去。渐渐的，他们发现，所有的一切都不是表面所看上去的那样，更奇怪的是，玛丽安本人似乎也留下了一系列不易察觉的线索，而这些线索则指向更险恶的真相。沿着玛丽安的布局，诺贝尔和弗瑞尔揭开了她光鲜生活背后隐藏的黑暗面，并将他们带回到她的上一宗案件：她故意牺牲一名无辜的证人，以使那名罪犯重获自由……(ZH)

Awards/获奖情况：Winner of the 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger (previously CWA Golden Dagger Award). The announcement was made on Thursday, 10th July, and Frances received a dagger and a cheque for ￡20,000, which makes it one of the largest awards for crime fiction in the world.

Praise for Frances Fyfield:
“Her knowledge of the workings of the human mind, or more correctly the soul, is second to none.”Ian Rankin

“a deeply satisfying read… powerfully drawn characters and compelling tension” Independent Praise for BLOOD FROM STONE

“a genuinely original and imaginative writer, [Fyfield] offers a fascinating read... An admirable crime novel” Literary Review

“Fyfield is routinely and rightly praised for her elegant prose... What doesn’t get mentioned so often is that when it comes to the dissection of the human spirit, she is the most brutal scalpel-wielder we have... [Fyfield is] one of Highsmith’s true heirs” The Guardian

“Blood From Stone has all the complexity you’d expect from this award-winning grande dame of crime fiction (she’s up there with Rendell, James, McDermid and Walter)... Simply terrific” Observer

“As always, Fyfield leaves her readers with shivers that take a long time to go away” The Times

“Among her myriad literary skills, Frances Fyfield is adept at creating blood-chilling psychopaths. Like her American predecessor Patricia Highsmith, she takes us deep into their twisted psychology” The Independent

“A well-crafted and ingenious crime novel” Scotland on Sunday

“Ingenious plotting” Daily Mirror

“the kind of compelling, hypnotic read that can only come from the pen of a writer at the top of her game” Daily Record

“Frances Fyfield’s experience as a prosecuting solicitor must have acquainted her with the nastiest possible human behaviour. She specialises in unhappiness and has a knack of picking a troubling episode from the news and transforming it to fit into her imaginative world. Some years ago it was a woman police officer more or less destroyed by participating in a honey trap that failed to prove a suspected murderer’s guilt. This time it’s a successful professional woman who throws herself from the window of an expensive London hotel. She is Marianne Shearer, a barrister, who has just achieved a not-guilty verdict for a sadist, whose greatest pleasure came from the humiliation of his victim. The explanation of exactly what he did and why Shearer jumped is a perfect example of Fyfield’s work: beautifully written, cold, and emotionally brutal.” - Natasha Cooper, The Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Frances Fyfield在德比郡的乡下长大，成年后则长居在伦敦，偶尔来往于诺福克和迪尔，她主修英文并取得了律师执照，并在皇家检察机构工作，也因此而间接获得许多有关犯罪的信息。法律条文以及其他相关也经常出现在她的小说中。她现今是一名小说家，杂志和广播的短篇作者。她的作品曾被广泛的引至海外，并在电视上进行播放，她的Deep Sleep and the Prix 和 Litterature Policière in France获得1991年度Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger。
作者个人主页：http://www.francesfyfield.co.uk/

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