SCRAPBOOK OF SECRETS
Book ID/图书代码： 14780011B51331
English Summary/英文概要： Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mum in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie can’t help but feel that something’s missing. But she finds solace in a local "crop circle" of scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding children, and occasional fantasies of their former single lives. And when the quiet idyll of their small town is shattered by a young mother’s suicide, they band together to find out what went wrong...Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind more than a few secrets - and perhaps a few enemies. As they sift through Maggie Rae’s mysteriously discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her "crop" sisters begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder. It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath the town’s beguilingly calm facade - like a killer with unfinished business...
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小鎮 八卦 謀殺
家庭主婦化身業餘偵探 從重重照片之中挖掘線索看似平靜純樸的鄉間小鎮
鎮民錯綜複雜的關係與八卦
鮮明的角色特徵與生動的對話
從闖蕩大城市、叱吒職場的記者，轉變成待在鄉下在家顧小孩的家庭主婦。雖然生活幸福，但Annie總覺得心裡少了什麼，因此她加入社區家庭主婦組成的手作拼貼社團(scrapbook club，全美最熱門的休閒活動之一)。社團活動除了分享創作成果，碎碎唸一下不做家事的老公、難伺候的孩子們、街坊鄰居的八卦、還有偶爾懷念起過去美好的單身時光。
有一天，救護車的警笛聲擾亂了一向寧靜無波的小鎮生活。社團裡的一位年輕媽媽Maggie Rae結束了自己的生命…。Annie和社團成員決定私下調查這起事件，發現Maggie的剪貼簿不見了，是否裡面的照片揭露出某些線索？事件急轉直下發展成謀殺案，而這起案件可能只是序幕而已…。
(Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：入圍2013年阿嘉莎獎（Agatha Award）最佳首作（Best First Novel）Reviews
"Mollie Bryan’s charming debut is a scrapbook of zany small town life with characters you’ll want to visit again and again in each new novel." --Emilie Richards, SUNSET BRIDGE, 2011; MINISTRY IS MURDER SERIES, SHENANDOAH ALBUM SERIES; HAPPINESS KEY SERIES.
"Imagine the housewives of Wisteria Lane sipping tea, scrapbooking, and solving murders, and you have this gem of a debut by Mollie Cox Bryan."-- Lois Winston, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY GLUE GUN.
"A font of ingenuity...superb entertainment."--Mystery Scene Magazine
"I seriously underestimated the book I was about to read...it examines a variety of the secrets that people hold. Exploring how the characters and society deals with these secrets provides the reader with an extremely thought provoking book." The Examiner
"An old fashioned mystery with some very modern twists. The intriguing characters, eerie happenings, and scrapbook of secrets kept me guessing ’til the end. It’s both warm and chilling, soothing and sinister. I can’t wait for the next installment!" -Clare O’Donohue, SOMEDAY QUILTS MYSTERY SERIES.
"Cozy fans are going to love this fast-paced Cumberland Creek Mystery due to strong characterizations that bring a sense of place to the entertaining storyline... Mollie Cox Bryan provides an engaging regional whodunit. This new series look to be spectacular." --Harriet Klausner, The Mystery Gazette
About the Author/作者介绍： 在擔任公司行號以及非營利組織的編輯及寫手多年後，Mollie Cox Bryan決定回歸家庭，在家事之餘當自由作家。她喜愛烹調，有2本烹飪書著作《Mrs. Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies》和《Mrs. Rowe’s Restaurant Cookbook》，但同時她也對謀殺深深著迷，因此撰寫犯罪輕小說的概念就此誕生。她的犯罪小說著作有《Cumberland Creek Mysteries》系列，此系列包括本書以及《Scrapped》，另外也出了電子書《Honey, I’m Sorry I Killed Your Aquasaurs (and Other Short Essays on The Parenting Life)》。Mollie Cox Bryan is a cookbook author with a penchant for murder. She is also the author of the Cumberland Creek Mysteries: SCRAPBOOK OF SECRETS (Kensington, Feb.2012) and SCRAPPED (Kensington, Dec.2012). She is also the author of MRS. ROWE’S LITTLE BOOK OF SOUTHERN PIES (RANDOM HOUSE, 2009) and MRS. ROWE’S RESTAURANT COOKBOOK; A LIFETIME OF RECIPES FROM THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY (Ten Speed Press, 2006). She also is the author of a Kindle book HONEY, I’M SORRY I KILLED YOUR AQUASAURS (AND OTHER SHORT ESSAYS ON THE PARENTING LIFE.)
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