STILL MIDNIGHT
Book ID/图书代码： 11701208B29306
English Summary/英文概要： Life ought to be simple for DI Alex Morrow. She’s an up-and-coming Glasgow cop, just about to be presented with the case that could make her career. Her half-brother Danny is also on the up. Unfortunately for her, he’s making his name on the other side of the tracks - in the murky shadows of Glasgow’s criminal underworld. Nearby, a peaceful Sunday evening in a suburban neighbourhood is brutally shattered by a vicious attack. A battered van pulls up to the door of an ordinary-looking home and disgorges a group of armed men in balaclavas. They smash into the house, hold the terrified family within at gunpoint and demand millions of pounds. Baffled, the family protest that they don’t have that sort of money. As quickly as they came, the attackers snatch the elderly grandfather and storm off into the night. When DI Morrow arrives she soon realises that there are too many missing links in this seemingly random attack: nothing quite makes sense. Who were the men? And why did they think this normal household concealed untold riches? The family is certainly not talking and as Morrow starts to delve deeper, she realises that there are dark secrets all around... As she searches for answers to one family’s secrets, she must protect her own. Can she keep her bosses in the dark about her criminal brother? Or is something going to have to give?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 格拉斯哥郊区周日一个宁静的夜晚，一辆破旧的货车在一家门前突然停下，车上跳出一帮头戴武装面罩的人。 他们冲进房子里，拿着枪口对着这家人，要求数百万磅。令人困惑的是，这些被困的人声称他们无法拿到这么多的钱。攻击者绑架了这家年长的祖父后，消失于风暴之夜。
高级女警司亚历克斯•莫罗被派往前去调查此案，但这起案件没有什么悬疑，这些头戴军用面罩的人是谁？他们为何认为一寻常之家会隐藏着数不清的财富？当然这家人肯定不会透露。但随着她开始深入探查，她逐渐意识到围绕着这起案件的重重谜团…… (Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况： “Mina is acutely sensitive to characters’ mental states, rendering them with a precision which blurs the line between heroism and villainy. At the same time, her prose is both nimble and muscular.” The Guardian
“Like all the best crime writers, Mina can make melodramatic events seem credible because her characterisations and settings are so authentic. There are probably now as many crime writers in Scotland as criminals, but Mina may be the pick of the bunch.” The Daily Telegraph
“Mina shakes the tired format of the thriller until all the clichés come out. The final effect of STILL MIDNIGHT is both unsettling and exhilarating.” The Independent
STILL MIDNIGHT: UK: Orion; US: Little Brown; Canada: McArthur; Finland: Like; France: Editions du Masque; Germany: Heyne; Holland: Ambo Anthos; Norway: Vigmostad & Bjorke; Sweden: Forum
About the Author/作者介绍： 丹尼斯•米娜( Denise Mina)，1966年出生于英国格拉斯哥，犯罪小说作家和剧作家。父亲是位工程师，因其工作原因，一家人在18年内迁居21次，辗转于巴黎、海牙、伦敦、苏格兰和卑尔根等地。米娜16岁时离开学校，从事过多种低技能的工作，像酒吧女招待、餐厅帮工和厨师、肉食品加工厂工人以及照料老人和危重病人的护工。20多岁后重返校园，在格拉斯哥大学获得法学学士学位。20世纪90年代，她一边撰写关于女罪犯精神疾病的博士论文，一边在斯特拉恩克莱德大学教授犯罪学和刑法，就在此时萌发了创作犯罪类小说的念头。Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. Her family moved twenty one times in eighteen years from Paris to the Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen. She also writes comics and in 2006 wrote her first play, ’Ida Tamson’. As well as all of this she writes short stories and is a regular contributor to TV and radio.
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