DISORDERED MINDS
Book ID/图书代码： 05430003B11843
English Summary/英文概要： Slowly but surely, Minette Walters has been building up her reputation as one of the UK’s most penetrating and distinctive purveyors of the psychological thriller. Disordered Minds will add even more lustre to her name. Such books as Fox Evil and Acid Row demonstrated Walters’ reluctance to repeat herself in terms of narrative, and her easy command of the various social groups in her novels (upper middle or council estate) is more sure than that of her colleagues and peers.
Disordered Minds builds on her rich mélange of gifts and continues to strip-mine darker areas of the human psyche than most contemporary novelists--literary or otherwise--are keen to tackle. It’s the 1970s: a man dies in prison after a controversial conviction for killing his grandmother. Howard Stamp, an educationally subnormal young man, takes his own life, and the case generates movements claiming Stamp’s innocence. Anthropologist Jonathan Hughes digs deeper than the police had originally done, and when Jonathan’s path crosses that of the elderly George Gardener, long an advocate of the hapless Stamp’s innocence, Gardener co-opts Jonathan in an attempt to clear the dead man’s name. But there are some frightening consequences, such as the fact that the real killer will not like being put in the frame again.
As always, Walters is interested in far more than the simple mechanics of crime-novel plotting: Despite their differences, Jonathan Hughes finds that the backward Stamp is still something of a doppelganger of himself, mirroring his own disturbed childhood and sense of alienation, while the background of a pending conflict in Iraq throws the personal dramas sharply into relief. This is Walters at her disturbing best.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事发生在20世纪70年代，一个男人死于狱中。他被认为是谋害了自己的祖母，但这确实一个有争议的定罪。人类学家乔纳森.休斯正在深入研究此案件，他遇到了上了年纪的乔治.加德纳，他们一起查清死者的真实姓名，然而最终却发生了可怕的结果…（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”。
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