CROSSBONES YARD
Book ID/图书代码： 12691011B47366
English Summary/英文概要： Crossbones Yard is a tense metropolitan thriller, set in contemporary London. The narrator, thirty-two year old psychologist Alice Quentin lives in a glamorous neighbourhood close to Tower Bridge, but her life is unravelling. Memories of her father’s violence still trouble her, and her drug-addicted brother Will lives in a van, parked outside her apartment building. Alice works at Guy’s Hospital, and she believes that if she works hard she can keep her fears under control, but she is terrified of lifts and confined spaces. One night while out running she finds a girl’s body at Crossbones Yard, a deconsecrated prostitutes’ graveyard in Southwark. Building a profile of the killer, she discovers that the style of the murder is identical to those carried out by Ray and Marie Benson seven years before. The Bensons were sadistic killers who tortured their victims before burying their bodies in the grounds of their property The killer has insider knowledge of the Bensons’ crimes, and Alice is forced to visit Marie Benson, Britain’s most notorious female killer, in Rampton Psychiatric Hospital.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《死亡庭院》是一个令人读来神经紧张的都市惊悚片，它的背景设定在当代的伦敦。32岁的故事叙述者，心理学家爱丽丝•昆汀居住在视野开阔的伦敦塔桥附近，但她的生活却并不幸福。父亲的家庭暴力依旧让她胆战心惊，她的“瘾君子”弟弟威尔住在一辆货车上，而这辆货车则停在她公寓边上。 爱丽丝在盖伊医院工作。她始终认为，只要她努力工作，她就能将控制内心的恐惧，然而她依旧非常害怕电梯和空旷的空间。一天晚上她外出的时候，在“死亡庭院”——萨瑟克区的妓女乱坟冈，发现了一具尸体。为了查明真相，爱丽丝对凶手进行了剖析，而她发现，凶手的作案手法居然与七年前的杀人狂魔雷和玛丽•拜森惊人的相似。拜森家族是最残暴的杀人家族之一，他们将受害者的身体用他们自己的财产埋葬起来，并进行可怖的折磨。这个杀手，极有可能是拜森家族的人，或者是对于拜森家族的杀人手法非常熟知的人。为了解开杀手之谜，爱丽丝不得不逼迫自己拜访玛丽•拜森——英国最臭名昭著的女杀手，现在被囚禁在兰普顿精神病医院。(兼职翻译-YZH)
Awards/获奖情况：Praise for CROSSBONE’S YARD:
The Washington Post: ‘a fast-moving, entertaining mix of sex, suspense and serial killings.’
The Sun: ’There are some great twists, turns and surprises in this debut novel.’
The Daily Mail: ‘Quentin is one of a cast of really believable and entertaining characters and both the plot and the writing keep one thoroughly engaged throughout. A stylish debut.’
The Guardian: ‘A pacy psychological thriller that makes good use of its London setting.’
The Sunday Telegraph: ’Crossbones Yard is a promising debut by Kate Rhodes... Quentin’s psycho junkie brother is quite a character.’
The Mail on Sunday: ’ Alice is a vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline; readers will care as much about Alice as they do about identifying the murderer and solving the mystery.’
The Daily Record: ‘The suspense builds up well, chapter by chapter, and the result is a good read that is in a very similar vein to Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta books.’
Erin Kelly: ’Like Nicci French, Kate Rhodes excels at character, pace and sense of place. Alice Quentin is compelling and completely convincing: I look forward to following the series.’
Louise Penny: "An atmospheric, smart, often terrifying read."
Stephen Booth: ’A fresh voice in crime fiction, bringing an intriguing and appealing central character in the form of psychologist Alice Quentin - I loved the way the Kate Rhodes uses all the senses to draw the reader into her compelling fictional world.’
Elizabeth Haynes: ‘CROSSBONES YARD is an utterly brilliant, exhilarating read and I devoured every page. The characters, especially the bold and brave heroine, are touchingly real.’
About the Author/作者介绍： 凯特•罗斯出生于伦敦，她拥有“现代美国文学”的博士学位，并且她在英国和美国的大学教授英语。她花了数年时间在美国的南部各州工作，第一个是德克萨斯州，然后是佛罗里达州的文学学院。凯特的第一本诗集出版与2005年，她的第二部作品《爱丽丝的陷阱》于2008年出版。英国《卫报》将她的诗集描述为“短短的字里行间充满了跳跃的、充满活力的、令人愉悦的触感”。凯特的诗集获得了霍桑登奖，并且入围和获得了布里德波特奖和诗歌创新奖。凯特不仅仅从事教育事业，同时，她也是一个优秀的作家。她现在住在剑桥大学，与剑河一步之遥，正是如此，激发了她投资独木舟的想法。《死亡庭院》是凯特的第一部小说。 Kate Rhodes was born in London. She has a PhD in modern American literature and has taught English at British and American universities. She spent several years working in the southern states of America, first in Texas, then at a liberal arts college in Florida. Kate’s first collection of poems Reversal was published in 2005, her second collection, The Alice Trap was published in 2008. The Guardian described her poems as “pared back and fast-moving, the short lines full of an energetic lightness of touch”. Kate has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship. Her poems have been shortlisted and won prizes in a number of competitions including the Bridport Prize and the Forward Single Poem Prize. Kate combines her career as a writer with work as educational consultant. She now lives in Cambridge, within walking distance of the river Cam, which has inspired her to invest in a canoe. Crossbones Yard is Kate’s first novel.
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