JUDAS CHILD

Book ID/图书代码： 11320099B0239

English Summary/英文概要： Sadie’s purple bike was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press. But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn’t convinced, thinking back 15 years to the imprisonment of Father Paul Marie for a similar crime. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美國暢銷作家Carol O’Connell 在《Mallory》經典心理驚悚系列小說外，1999年推出的另一本創新驚悚縣疑小說單行本《JUDAS CHILD》，同樣地也十分成功。此書版權銷售全世界14國。
每個人都以為已經抓到殺害兒童的兇手，兇手是先前當地的神父正在服刑中。因此當15年後，兩位女孩失蹤時，每個人都認為是她們離家出走了。然而只有Ali不這麼認為，她發現與15年前事件相關聯之處，她與15年前失去雙胞胎妹妹的Rouge攜手合作，試圖找出現在與15年前的事件真相。此書承襲《Mallory》迷人、成功的女英雄角色以及社會心理犯罪偵查脈絡，深受讀者歡迎!(VC)

Awards/获奖情况：此書版權銷售全球14國，暢銷經典《Mallory》系列作者單行本

In a departure from her popular Kathleen Mallory suspense series (most recently Stone Angel), O’Connell’s chilling tale of a murderer who preys on children compensates for a muddled plot with its clear-eyed look at the heights and depths of human behavior. When two remarkable fifth-grade girlsAGwen Hubble, the beautiful daughter of the lieutenant governor, and Sadie Green, an imaginative and plucky child obsessed with horror comics and moviesAare kidnapped from the St. Ursula’s Academy, two adults afflicted by their own tragedies are drawn into the investigation. Forensic psychologist Ali Cray draws stares both for her slit skirts and for a disfiguring facial scar, the result of a secret childhood trauma. Policeman Rouge Kendall is haunted by the memory of his twin sister’s murder 15 years earlier. The killer was supposedly caught, but similarities between the old murder and the current case make Cray begin to doubt. In the earlier case, the killer used a note from one captured child (the Judas child) to lure a friend; the reader knows that this is again the pattern, just as we knowAor think we knowAwhere the girls are being held. As the investigation continues and the girls attempt to escape, O’Connell introduces vivid minor characters, including a 10-year-old boy almost too shy to speak and one of Cray’s ex-lovers, a cop who expresses his thwarted yearning for her through insult contests. O’Connell’s prose occasionally veers toward the florid, but the main problem here is a supernatural twist (perhaps a trend? see Firebird above) that leaves readers somewhat adrift. In the end, however, O’Connell’s subtle characterization of people who face tragedy with resilience and spirit makes for a moving novel. ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Carol O’Connell is the author of several bestselling novels, including Judas Child, Killing Critics, and Stone Angel, all available from Brilliance Audio. She lives in New York City.
Carol O’Connell是美國暢銷作家。著有知名的《Mallory》系列的九本小說，《Mallory》系列版權已售21國。

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