THE GIFT OF DARKNESS
Book ID/图书代码： 12691012B52815
English Summary/英文概要： Olympic National Park, Washington State. In the hour before dawn, a man races through the pitch black forest. He skids to a stop at the end of the trail, it is the thirty-seventh time he has run that stretch, the twentieth at night. One day soon his ultimate purpose will depend on that single run: slow enough for those who will hunt him to follow, and fast enough so they will not catch him before his work is complete.
Seattle. Twenty five years have passed since three boys were kidnapped and taken into the woods; only two came back alive, the body of the third was never recovered and his death and the mystery of what happened have marred the lives of all involved. Two weeks before Christmas a family is found murdered in their home, the killer has left a message carved on a doorframe: thirteen days. This is how long he is willing to give Homicide Detective Alice Madison to understand his purpose and to fulfil her part in it. Alice Madison ran away from home as a child, one breath away from committing an unforgivable act; as an adult, she found her peace chasing the very worst humanity has to offer.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
奧林匹克國家公園，華盛頓特區
黎明的前一小說，一個男人奔跑著穿過漆黑的森林，跑到小徑末端突然停了下來。他跑這段路已經跑了37次了，其中有20此是在晚上完成的。在不久的一天，他的目標是否能實現就看這一段路的奔跑了，他要跑得夠慢，才能讓想要抓他的人能跟上，又要跑得夠快，才能在他完成工作之前不要被抓到……
西雅圖
25年前，三個男孩被綁架，帶到森林裡，只有兩個男孩活著回來，另一個男孩不治身亡。所有與這起案件有牽連的家庭都深受其苦。
耶誕節前的兩周，發生了一起全家被殺的案件。兇手在門框上刻了一個線索：13天。13天，他只給偵探Alice Madison 13天弄清他的意圖，完成她在這個案件中的作用。
偵探Alice Madison幼年時從家離家出走，差一點就犯下了不可饒恕的罪過。長大後，追蹤人間邪惡讓她獲得了內心的平和。兇手發出的資訊足以讓一個男人既怕又恨。John Cameron就是25年前倖存的男孩之一；另一個男孩是被滅口一家人的丈夫。
縱觀一生，偵探Madison有理由懷疑她自己的道德範疇，而現在為了能抓到真正的兇手，她必須背叛她的同事，與喀麥隆的律師，一個她厭惡鄙視的人合作。
第13天早上3點，就在那個孩子死亡的地點，誰是敵誰是同盟已經分不清楚，我們要追尋的只是正義。
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版權已賣：德國、義大利、法國、荷蘭、西班牙、以色列
Foreign rights to Germany - Droemer-Knaur, Italy - Nord, France - Editions Albin Michel, Holland - Luitingh Sijthoff, Spain - Ediciones Pamies, Israel - Keter Books.
About the Author/作者介绍： V. M. Giambanco出生在義大利。在Goldsmiths獲得英語和戲劇學位後，她在當地的書店賣古典音樂和圖書。然後在35平米的電影編輯室做編輯的助手，自此，她開始為多家獲獎英國和美國的電影公司工作。他們為各種大型電影公司或小型獨立專案提供服務。V. M. Giambanco現在住在倫敦。《THE GIFT OF DARKNESS》是她的第一本小說。Valentina Giambanco was born in Italy. After her degree in English and Drama at Goldsmiths, she worked for a classical music retailer and as a bookseller in her local bookshop. She started in films as an editor’s apprentice in a 35mm cutting room and since then has worked on many award-winning UK and US pictures, from small independent projects to large studio productions. V.M.Giambanco lives in London and THE GIFT OF DARKNESS is her first novel.
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