THE WINTER FOUNDLINGS
Book ID/图书代码： 12691012B53136
English Summary/英文概要： It’s the coldest winter on record, and young girls are vanishing from the streets of north London. Ten year-old Sarah Robinson was taken on her way to the corner shop, and Ella Williams never returned home from school. When Sarah’s body is found in a cardboard coffin outside the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury just before Christmas, it’s clear that her killer is following in the footsteps of the UK’s most prolific child murderer, Louis Kinsella. He is abducting victims on the same dates of the year, and from the same streets that Kinsella terrorised seventeen years before.
Psychologist Alice Quentin is working at Northwood Secure Psychiatric Hospital, when DCI Don Burns asks for her help. Alice has to win Louis Kinsella’s trust, to discover exactly what he knows. This presents Alice with her toughest challenge yet, because he is a brilliant manipulator, fuelled with psychopathic certainty that his evil acts were justified. He also looks just like her violent father who terrified her as a child. When Kinsella was a primary school headmaster he killed nine young girls before being caught, and until now has never spoken of his crimes. Alice has to trade secrets with him, to break down his wall of silence.
The ritualised style of the attacks reveals that the killer, Chris Steadman, is obsessed with the Victorian regime at London’s first orphanage, the Foundling Museum. He sends mementoes from each murder scene to Louis Kinsella: a scrap of fabric from a victim’s dress, a shoe buckle, and a lock of hair. Steadman is a former pupil of Kinsella’s and is working at Northwood to be near his guru. He imprisons his victims in the derelict London boys’ home where he grew up. Soon his killing spree moves west, so he can place his human tributes closer to Kinsella. Autopsies show that the children are not sexually abused, but are being kept in the freezing cold. The killer enjoys watching them suffer.
Alice’s personal life is as complicated as the case. Her relationships with her mother and brother remain tense, and she has started a flirtation with Tom Jensen, a sports instructor at Northwood. Like Alice, Tom finds intimacy hard. He was a priest until he lost his faith, and since then he’s avoided commitment. His interest in Alice intensifies to a frightening level as the case progresses, but she is becoming attracted to Don Burns.
When another victim’s body is found yards from Alice’s rented cottage, she realises that her own life is in danger. Ten year old Ella Williams, is still being kept in captivity. She has used her charm and intelligence to win Steadman’s trust, and when he abducts Alice and gives her a drug which temporarily paralyses her, only Ella has the power to set her free.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是有史以来最为寒冷的一个冬天，大街上也难觅年轻女孩们的身影。10岁的莎拉•罗宾森被带往街角的商店，艾拉•威廉姆斯则再也没有从学校返回家中。当人们在圣诞夜前夕在布鲁姆伯利弃儿博物馆外的一具棺材中发现了莎拉的尸体，无疑凶手正追随着英国历史上最大规模的儿童谋杀犯路易斯•金斯勒的杀人手法。他在同样的时间段中绑架遇害者，并于17年前金斯勒施暴的街道之上犯下同样的罪行。
当中情局的唐•彭斯向心理学家爱丽丝•昆汀寻求帮助时，爱丽丝正在诺斯伍德安全精神病院中工作。爱丽丝早年曾获得过路易斯•金斯勒的信任，从而清楚的知道其内心的想法。
这是爱丽丝迄今为止遇到过的最大挑战，因为金斯勒一直都是一名聪明的掌控者，他变态地相信着即便是他罪恶的行径也一定会得到宽恕。他和爱丽丝残忍的父亲有着太多的相似之处，她的童年因为他们而充满着阴影。金斯勒担任小学校长时曾残忍的杀害了九名幼女，并且直至今日都从未供认过他的罪行。爱丽丝必须通过与他交换秘密的方式才能打破他的缄默不语。
这次仪式般的袭击模式极大的证实了本次的谋杀犯克里斯•斯戴德曼极度痴迷于维多利亚时期伦敦的第一所孤儿院“弃儿博物馆”中的统治。他向刘易斯•金斯勒曾经的每一个犯罪现场都寄送了纪念品：受害者衣物上的一小块编织物、一块鞋扣和一绺头发。斯戴德曼曾经是金斯勒的学生，并曾在诺斯伍德附近，只为更加靠近他的精神导师。他曾在一所废弃的伦敦男孩的家中长大并在那里囚禁了他的受害者们。很快他的屠杀之旅一路向西移动，这样他就可以将他的人肉祭品们更加接近金斯勒。尸检显示这些孩子们并未遭遇性侵，但却被一直保存在极其寒冷的状态中，犯人极度享受看着她们遭受痛苦的折磨。
爱丽丝当下的生活就如同这个案件一般错综复杂。她与母亲及兄长的关系都十分的紧张，并且刚刚开始了与汤姆•詹森的亲密关系，詹森是一名在诺森伍德执教的体育教练。和爱丽丝一样，他发现与一个人真正的亲近下去十分困难。他曾是一名牧师，直至有一天他失去了信仰，从那以后，他便尽可能的避免许下承诺。他对于爱丽丝的兴趣和迷恋日渐增强，甚至如同这个案件一样发展到了一种令人惊慌的程度，只不过爱丽丝开始慢慢迷恋上了唐•彭斯。
直到爱丽丝租屋外的不远处，又一具受害人的尸体出现，她才意识到自己如今也身处危机之中。10岁的艾拉•威廉姆斯还被囚禁着，她运用自己的魅力和智力赢得了斯戴德曼的信任，因此当斯戴德曼绑架了爱丽丝并给她服用了一种药物，令其短时间内失去知觉，只有艾拉才能够放她自由。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：大赞作者凯特•罗德斯。
精彩的起伏、转折和惊喜（Sun）
作者将爱丽丝这一主人公刻画得栩栩如生，她复杂而恼人的历史简直与整个故事线的精彩程度不分伯仲。 (苏菲•汉娜《每日电讯报》)
一部绝对精彩且振奋人心的小说作品（伊丽莎白•海尼斯，作者，著有《在黑暗角落的最深处》）
一部步步紧逼的心理惊悚悬疑作品，极好的利用了伦敦作为故事发生的背景。（劳拉•威尔森，《卫报》）
超快的节奏与极强的娱乐性，融合了性、悬念和一系列的谋杀（《华盛顿邮报》）
昆丁是一系列令人信服且极具娱乐性的人物形象之一，并且不论情节设置还是文风均十分引人入胜。（《每日邮报》）
如同尼西•弗朗茨一般，凯特•罗德斯更多地致力于人物形象、节奏和方位感的探索（欧琳•凯莉，作家，著有《毒木》）
一流之作。（《出版家周刊》）
一名街区女性的优秀典范（《女性与家庭》）
令人爱不释手。（佩尼•汉考克，作家，著有《浪迹线》）
‘An enjoyably scary chiller.’ Sunday Mirror
‘Atmospheric and suspenseful.’ Publishers Weekly
‘Alice holds her own in confrontations with her terrifying patients. The Winter Foundlings is an exciting story, very well told by an accomplished novelist and award winning poet.’ The Literary Review
‘Fans of the first two books starring Quentin won’t be disappointed; the mood is rife with fear and sexual tension as Quentin and Burns attempt to catch a child killer before he strikes again.’ Library Journal
‘The suspense…will have night time readers pushing their bedtime well past reasonable limits.’ Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍： 凯特•罗德斯出生于伦敦。她曾于英美大学中教授英语语言，目前则是一名全职作家。凯特著有两部诗集选Reversal 和The Alice Trap。她曾获得英联邦演讲奖以及霍索登诗歌奖，以及其他一系列著名奖项的提名，其中包括Bridport奖和Forward奖。
Kate Rhodes was born in London. She has taught English at universities in Britain and the United States, and now writes full-time. Kate is the author of two collections of poetry, Reversal and The Alice Trap.
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