FOX EVIL
Book ID/图书代码： 05430002B7333
English Summary/英文概要： A stunning bestseller from Britain’s most exciting crime writer
When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner’s inquest gives a verdict of ’natural causes’ but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away.
Why? Because he’s guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule the roost? Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Why have James and Ailsa cut their children out of their wills? What happened in the past to create such animosity within the family? And why is James so desperate to find his illegitimate grandchild?
Friendless and alone, his reclusive behaviour begins to alarm his London-based solicitor, Mark Ankerton, whose concern deepens when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of far worse than the death of his wife. Allegations which he refuses to challenge . . . Why? Because they’re a motive for murder? . . .
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 米尔特.沃尔特的第九部作品，《狐狸不祥》（FOX EVIL），故事背景设置在田园乡村。上了年纪的艾尔莎死在花园里，身上只穿有睡衣，尸体旁边是一滩触目惊心的血迹，手指的朝向可能是她的有钱的丈夫。 验尸官认为这是一场自然死亡，但人们认为艾尔莎的死绝对和詹姆斯有关。无依无靠的詹姆斯还有他深居简出的行为使他的律师陷入了忧虑，而令他忧虑加重的是，那些不留情面的指控给詹姆斯带来的伤害，甚至超过了失去妻子的悲痛。詹姆斯对这些指控无予理会，而是把所有的经历放在寻找他的私生孙女上，这个人或许是拯救他名誉和生命的救星？(Claire)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 米尔特.沃尔特(Minette Walters) 1949年出生于英国，从小喜欢阅读社会新闻，37岁时开始写作罪案小说。著有十二部长篇小说，两部中篇小说以及很多短篇故事，作品被翻译成二十多种文字，出版于三十五个国家，并陆续被BBC改编成一系列电视影集。获得的重要奖项有两项英国犯罪作家协会（Crime Writers’ Association）银匕首奖（Gold Daggers），美国推理作家协会（Mystery Writers of America）埃德加爱伦坡奖（Edgar Allan Poe Award）和麦卡维帝奖，囊括了大西洋两岸象征罪案小说最高荣誉的所有可能奖项，是当之无愧的“罪案小说女王”。 The acclaimed author of nine international bestsellers, Walters has established herself as one of today’s leading crime writers. Most of her previous novels have been made into television mini-series. She lives with her husband and two children in Dorset, England.
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