THE TALE OF HALCYON CRANE
Book ID/图书代码： 06840008B28724
English Summary/英文概要： A young woman travels alone to a remote island to uncover a past she never
knew was hers in this thrilling modern ghost story.
When a mysterious letter lands in Hallie James’s mailbox, her life is
upended. Hallie was raised by her loving father, having been told her mother
died in a fire decades earlier. But it turns out that her mother, Madlyn, was
alive until very recently. Why would Hallie’s father have taken her away
from Madlyn? What really happened to her family thirty years ago?
In search of answers, Hallie travels to the place where her mother lived, a
remote island in the middle of the Great Lakes. The stiff islanders fix her
first with icy stares and then unabashed amazement as they recognize why
she looks so familiar, and Hallie quickly realizes her family’s dark secrets
are enmeshed in the history of this strange place. But not everyone greets her
with such a chilly reception—a coffee-shop owner and the family’s lawyer
both warm to Hallie, and the possibility of romance blooms. And then
there’s the grand Victorian house bequeathed to her—maybe it’s the eerie
atmosphere or maybe it’s the prim, elderly maid who used to work for her
mother, but Hallie just can’t shake the feeling that strange things are starting
to happen.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《翠鳥傳奇》是擁有典型的現代細膩的令人毛骨悚然的哥德式恐怖小說。 韋伯女士以一種引人入勝的手法，生動的創造了一個關於可怕的過去對現在的影響，以及一個女人如何揭露家族的秘密以及這對她自身生活的影響。” 一位年輕女子--哈莉詹姆斯，隻身前往一個遙遠偏僻的小島去找尋她被掩藏的過去。
故事始於一封神秘的信件，當哈莉詹姆斯打開信箱展悅此信時，她的生活徹底顛覆了。哈莉從小由她慈愛的父親帶大，父親告訴她母親幾十年前喪生於一場火災。但是，她後來卻發現，母親瑪德琳一直還活著。為什麼父親要將她帶離母親身邊？三十年前她的家庭究竟發生了什麼變故？
為了找尋答案，哈莉獨自一人來到了母親居住的小島。
這個小島遙遠偏僻，位於五大淡水湖的中央。島上居民冷冷地盯著她。然而，當她被認出外表與當地居民相似時時，居民們就不再害羞了。
漸漸，哈莉發現她家庭中隱藏的秘密正藏在這個鬼地方的歷史中…。
但是，並非每個島上居民都很冷漠地對待她。一個咖啡店主以及她們家的律師就很熱情…浪漫情節由此綻放。
後來，留給她一座巨大的維多利亞式房屋，包括怪異、拘謹且年老的--曾隨侍她母親的女傭，但是古怪的事情由此開始接連不斷...
溫蒂韋伯創造了《翠鳥傳奇》這樣一個故事，讀畢後，縈繞心頭的，除了新鮮的驚險、活靈活現的人物以及可怕的、深埋多年的家庭秘辛…。(XJJ & SL)
Awards/获奖情况：Winner of the Minnesota
Book Award
Chicagoland Indie
Bookstores Bestseller
Michigan Bookstores
Bestseller
Finalist for Michigan
Notable Books
IndieNext List Pick
Great Lakes, Great Reads
Pick
Midwest
Connections Pick
Top 30 Summer Read for Traverse Magazine
“[Webb] gives both Bram Stoker and Stephen King a run for their travel
budget....One reason why The Tale of Halcyon Crane deserves a place in the
canon of tourism horror is its initial twist of the emotional knife....Ghosts,
violent death, witches—none of these terrible presences on the island hold a
frightful candle to the psychological devastation at the outset of the
novel....This internal horror outdistances the merely external threats
imposed by Stoker and King....[I]n The Tale of Halcyon Crane, Hallie James
confronts the horror and takes possession of herself, entering into her
authentic identity, with all its difficulties intact....Like those journalistic
masters Dickens and Twain before her, [Webb] knows [how] to write good
travel prose.” --BookPage
"The eternal theme of the haunted house is appropriately modernized
without losing any of its charm." --Le Monde (France)
“Sensational. A guilty pleasure.” --Star Tribune
“An engaging modern gothic tale with a strong female protagonist and
well-done suspense. Fans of Mary Higgins Clark and Barbara Michaels and
readers who like supernatural elements in their fiction will enjoy this debut.”
--Library Journal
“Excellently developed, shining a light on the great imagination of this
author.” --Princeton Book Review
“Ghosts, seances, and an unsolved murder are brought together on a remote
island in the middle of the Great Lakes... A gothic thriller with a modern
twist.” --Indie Next List
“Webb includes all the classic ghostly elements in her novel, but she gives the
book a contemporary spin with a strong female protagonist.” --St. Paul
Pioneer Press
“Although not usually a fan of ghost stories, I immensely enjoyed The Tale of
Halcyon Crane. With intriguing characters, a vivid setting and gripping
storytelling, this novel contains the ideal blend of sinister and charm.”
--CityView, Iowa’s Independent Weekly
“This thrilling, modern ghost story will keep you reading straight through
to the surprising end!” --Midwest Booksellers Association
“This is what reading is supposed to be like: A story that comes across so well,
so seamlessly that it is like a brain movie, that reminds you of the first books
that kidnapped your attention....This is one of my favorites this year.”
--Minnesota Reads
“Webb hits every note just right. It’s hard to read a story like this and not
compare the author to Stephen King, so I’m not going to do much of that,
other than to say Webb carries a lot of the same power in her words.”
--BlogCritic; Seattle Post Intelligencer
“The Tale of Halcyon Crane throbs with the threat of menace; this is an
atmospheric, gothic story reminiscent of Turn of the Screw and had me racing
to the finish late into the night to find out what happens next. Read this
book.” --Misfit Salon
“Wendy Webb immediately captured my attention...amazingly descriptive
language.” --LibraryGirl Reads
About the Author/作者介绍： 作者為高級雜誌Duluth-Superior雜誌主編，已有二十年記者經驗。
Wendy Webb knew from the minute she read A Wrinkle in Time at
age eleven that she was destined to be a writer. After two decades as a
journalist, writing for varied publications including USA Today, the
Huffington Post, the Star Tribune, Midwest Living, and others,
Wendy wrote her first novel, The Tale of Halcyon Crane (Henry Holt,
2010). When it won the 2011 Minnesota Book Award for genre
fiction, she started writing fiction full-time. Her second and third
novels, The Fate of Mercy Alban (Hyperion, 2013) and The
Vanishing (Hyperion, 2014), established her as a leading suspense
novelist, who reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic.
She lives in Minneapolis with her part-time dog, Zeus, and is at work
on her next novel, The End of Temperance Dare (Lake Union, 2017).
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