BEFORE THE POISON
Book ID/图书代码： 03880011B44224
English Summary/英文概要： From bestselling author Peter Robinson comes this atmospheric, suspenseful, and thrilling standalone novel
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing film scores, Chris always promised his wife they’d return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now a widower, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to grieve and the peace to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before . . .
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 好萊塢作曲家自喪妻後退出江湖，隱居鄉間
卻住到了凶宅！
這座宅邸裡曾發生令人髮指的殺人案
嫌疑犯也已被送上絞刑台
但作曲家深覺事有蹊蹺，決心查出真相的他，卻發現不為人知的線索…
Chris Lowe是好萊塢知名電影作曲家，他答應愛妻總有一天要帶著她回家鄉約克郡。但是不幸的，愛妻卻先他而去。為了遵守未盡的承諾，他搬回家鄉，獨自住在遠離塵囂的Kilnsgate House裡，專心作曲。
但Kilnsgate House卻是棟凶宅…6年前，這棟房子裡的女主人Grace涉嫌毒殺自己的丈夫，儘管案件疑點重重，她還是被判了絞刑，直到行刑前她都不為自己辯護，默默接受這一切。Chris Lowe在某種機緣下得知這段歷史，深覺內情並不單純，他決定著手調查。
目前他手上的線索只有小鎮上的流言蜚語：驚鴻一瞥的殘影、神秘的陌生人和一封失蹤的信，真相…隱藏在哪裡？
獲獎無數的偵探小說作家Peter Robinson使用精采緊湊又生動的筆法，讓讀者與主人翁Chris Lowe一同腦力激盪，結局將出乎眾人意料之外！(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：wins the 2013 Dilys Award
入圍2013年黛利絲獎（Dilys Award）BEFORE THE POISON, #1 in the UK!
榮獲2012亞瑟．艾利斯獎（Arthur Ellis Award）最佳犯罪小說（Best Crime Novel）
橫掃美、英、法、加各項推理大獎
作品被翻譯成19種語言的國際知名推理作家Peter Robinson
精采獨立巨作！
Praise for the Author
“Brilliant! . . . Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure.” --- Jeffery Deaver 傑佛瑞．迪佛，著有《人骨拼圖》(The Bone Collector)、《馭電人》(The Burning Wire)等書
“Robinson, actually seems to grow in front of our eyes, delivering books of greater complexity each time.”--- Otto Penzler奧托．潘茲勒，權威推理書評家
“Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers ’league’” -- The Times 《泰晤士報》
“A police procedural that grips like pliers” --- Independent on Sunday 《週日獨立報》
“Robinson is incapable of writing a dull sentence.” --- People Magazine 《時人雜誌》
“Robinson quietly and methodically stretches the boundries of crime fiction.”--- National Post 《國家郵報》
“Robinson, of course, is among the upper elite of crime writers....”--- Hamilton Spectator 《漢密爾頓觀察者報》
the interview with Peter Robinson that ran in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on March 11. It discusses the book, and it also shows how the book and the author are closely associated.
Here is the link: http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2012/03/author_peter_robinson_explores.html
-周芸2012-3-14
About the Author/作者介绍： Yorkshire-born Peter Robinson, a long-time Toronto resident, is one of the world’s top writers of crime fiction and a winner of numerous awards, including the United States’ Edgar Award; the British Dagger in the Library Award; France’s prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Award; and, in Canada, several Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Awards. In 2010, he was given the Crime Writers of Canada’s Derrick Murdoch Award for his outstanding contribution to crime fiction, the Harbourfront Festival Prize for a body of work, and he was also awarded an honorary degree by the University of Windsor. His novels are published around the world and have been translated into nineteen languages.
Peter Robinson在英國約克郡(Yorkshire)長大，擁有英國里茲大學(University of Leeds)英語文學學士學位、加拿大溫莎大學(University of Windsor)英文創意寫作碩士學位以及美國約克大學(York University)英語博士學位，美國國民作家喬伊斯．卡洛．奧茲(Joyce Carol Oates)曾任他的導師。他在加拿大的多所大學及社區大學中任教，曾擔任溫莎大學駐校作家，也曾獲邀為英國偵探作家俱樂部(The Detection Club)的一員。
著有《Inspector Banks》偵探小說系列，此系列囊括多國重要推理小説大獎，包括
美國愛倫坡獎(Edgar Award)、
巴瑞獎(Barry Award)
安東尼獎(Anthony Award)，
英國圖書館匕首獎(CWA (UK) Dagger in The Library Award)、
加拿大亞瑟艾利斯獎(Arthur Ellis Award)、
麥克維提獎(Macavity Award)、
法國推理小說最高殊榮推理文學大獎(Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière)等獎項，而且被翻譯成19種語言。
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