CEMETERY ROAD

Book ID/图书代码： 10820009B34004

English Summary/英文概要： Cemetery Road (Severn House, 2010) is an extraordinary, gritty drama set in California. It tells the story of Errol “Handy” White, a man in his early fifties who makes his living fixing things no else would touch. He returns to his native Los Angeles, after a long exile in Minnesota, to attend the funeral of his old friend RJ Burrow.

Twenty years earlier, Handy, R.J, and their partner O’Neal Holden were three young thieves who pulled a heist that went horribly awry. Handy has been waiting for something like RJ’s brutal murder to promise payback for all three ever since. Both the police and “O,” as Holden has always been known, seem convinced that RJ’s death was the result of a drug sale gone sour, but Hardy can’t buy it, and neither can RJ’s widow, Frances. O’ is now the slick politician Hardy always knew he would become, and he has reasons of his own to want RJ’s murder to go away as quickly as possible, starting with a desperate need to keep a lid on terrible secret O’, Handy and RJ have been haunted by for over two decades.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Errol "Handy" White 是一名五十出头的修理工。但提到他所维修的东西时，人们都会避而远之。背井离乡多年之后，他终于从明尼苏达回到了自己的故乡洛杉矶，此行的目的，是为了参加老友 R.J Burrow 的葬礼。
二十年前，Handy, R.J 以及 O’Neal Holden 三人曾策划实施了一场劫案，但由于旁生枝节，最后不得不以失败而告终；自那之后，Handy 始终认为对于抢劫的失败，R.J 只能用一死加以谢罪；而从警方和 Holden 看来，Burrow 是死于毒品交易中的纠纷。对于这套说辞，Handy并不买账，同样持怀疑态度的，还有RJ的遗孀 Frances. 绰号"O"的 Holden ，如今已是一名圆滑的政客，基于三人之间那段机密的往事，Holden 迫切希望RJ之死能够尽快息事宁人。(WHL)

Awards/获奖情况："Reverberations from a crime committed in their youth follow three grown men with the tenacity and inevitability of Greek tragedy in Haywood’s beautifully crafted novel of unintended consequences... Haywood reaches new heights as he peels back the layers of a well-planned robbery to reveal its devastating ripple effects."---Publisher’s Weekly starred review

"Haywood melds an intricately plotted but highly suspenseful thriller to a moving story of belated coming-of-age... (He) exhibits a remarkable eye for detail, both in describing the landscape of poverty (“the bathroom had a toilet that only flushed when it was willing”) and in exposing the nuances of character. It’s been too long between books for a writer who has always belonged in the upper echelon of American crime fiction."---Booklist starred review

*Starred Booklist Review*: This gripping stand-alone thriller marks the long-awaited return of Gar Anthony Haywood, author of the critically acclaimed Aaron Gunner series (All the Lucky Ones Are Dead, 2000). Errol “Handy” White is working as a handyman in the Twin Cities when he gets word that his old friend, R. J. Burrows, has been murdered in Los Angeles. Handy knows he must return to L.A. to attend the funeral, but he also knows that when he sets foot in L.A., where he, R. J., and another friend, O’Neal Holden, now a rising politician, came up together, a terrible secret is in danger of coming to light. As young men, the three friends dabbled in crime in South Central L.A. until a revenge heist at a drug dealer’s home went tragically awry. Handy has been running ever since, from the crime and from himself, but now realizes that if he is to help R. J.’s daughter find her father’s killer, his running days are over. Haywood melds an intricately plotted but highly suspenseful thriller to a moving story of belated coming-of-age, as the introspective, deeply troubled Handy forces himself to confront what has gone wrong with his life. As in the Gunner series, Haywood exhibits a remarkable eye for detail, both in describing the landscape of poverty (“the bathroom had a toilet that only flushed when it was willing”) and in exposing the nuances of character. It’s been too long between books for a writer who has always belonged in the upper echelon of American crime fiction. ---Bill Ott

About the Author/作者介绍： Gar Anthony Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony Award-winning author of ten crime novels. Six featuring African-American private investigator Aaron Gunner, two recounting the adventures of Joe and Dottie Loudermilk; and two standalone thrillers (written under the pen name Ray Shannon.) He has also written for the LA Times and the NY Times. He lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles, CA.
作者Gar Anthony Haywood ，Shamus and Anthony文学奖获得者，出版过近十本犯罪小说；同时也为洛杉矶时报及纽约时报撰稿；他现于妻子一同定居于洛杉矶。

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