THE SCENT OF DEATH
Book ID/图书代码： 12100012B55734
English Summary/英文概要： From the bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the American War of Independence.Manhattan 1778 – the last part of America to remain under British rule. It is a city of secrets, profiteers, loyalists and double agents, and home to a swelling tide of refugees fleeing the forces of Congress and seeking justice from the British crown.
Edward Savill has been sent by London’s American Department to look into the claims of dispossessed ‘loyalists’. No sooner does he land, though, than he is taken to view the body of a gentleman found in Manhattan’s notorious Canvas Town. While the military authorities hang an escaped slave for the murder, Savill becomes convinced there has been a miscarriage of justice.
But he finds a deeper mystery closer to home. Taking lodgings with the respected Wintour family, he becomes aware of strange tensions running beneath the household’s surface. Judge Wintour’s beautiful daughter-in-law, Arabella, is hiding a tragedy in her past, while his son is determined on a dangerous mission into enemy territory for some unknown personal end. And what of Mr Noak, the enigmatic clerk helping the Judge put his papers in order, but seemingly bent on some more dubious course of his own?
What becomes clear to Savill is that the secrets within the Wintour home are dangerously entwined with the interests of the two warring countries, and that the killing in Canvas Town is just the start of a trail of murder that will touch those closest to him.
Chinese Summary/中文概要：
暢銷小說《THE AMERICAN BOY》作者的最新歷史驚悚力作。
此次作者選用的背景是美國獨立戰爭。
1778年，英國在美國還留下最後一塊殖民地——曼哈頓。曼哈頓城裡疑雲密佈、到處都有奸商、對英國效忠者和雙面間諜。此時，還有大量英國難民為了逃脫美國國會的統治而尋求英國政府的保護。
因為大量對英國政府效忠者被美國國會剝奪財產，設在倫敦的美國管理部便派出愛德華•薩維爾去倫敦調查他們提出的申訴。薩維爾先生剛到美國就被帶去看一起紳士被謀殺的案件。這起謀殺案發生在曼哈頓臭名昭著的肯瓦斯鎮。當局軍官認定是一名企圖逃跑的奴隸謀殺了這位紳士，並處以死刑，但薩維爾先生堅信這個判決並不公正。
在美國期間，薩維爾先生寄宿在溫特家。他發覺這個家庭裡還藏有更深的秘密。家裡表面平靜，緊張的氣氛卻暗流湧動。溫特法官美麗的兒媳阿拉貝拉曾經歷過一場悲劇，但對任何人都閉口不談。法官的兒子決定實行一個危險的計畫，潛入敵人的地盤，尋找一個下落不明的人。而神秘的職員諾亞克先生在為法官整理材料時，似乎在暗地裡為己谋利。
薩維爾先生唯一能確定的是溫特家裡的秘密與戰爭雙方國家的利益有緊密的聯繫。肯瓦斯鎮的謀殺案只是一個開始，接下來危險將會步步緊逼薩維爾先生身邊的人。（Celia）
Awards/获奖情况：CWA Historical Crime Dagger 2013
榮獲2013伊莉絲．彼得斯歷史匕首獎（CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award）
About the Author/作者介绍：
安德魯•泰勒的犯罪小說多次獲獎，包括Dougal系列、Lydmouth系列、羅斯三部曲。這三部系列小說還被改編成廣受歡迎的獨立電視劇《墮落天使》。他的《死者辦公室》和《美國男孩》都獲得犯罪小說作家協會歷史小說匕首獎。他還獲得卡地亞鑽石匕首獎提名，金匕首獎提名，愛倫坡獎提名和柴克斯頓年度老牌詭異犯罪小說獎提名。描寫少年愛倫坡在英國經歷的《美國男孩》是英國第四頻道播出的“理查和裘蒂讀書會”的2005年十大特選書之一。
安德魯2010年的作品《The Anatomy of Ghosts》入選2011年柴克斯頓年度老牌詭異犯罪小說獎提名。此書被《洛杉磯時報》贊為讓人欲罷不能的書，被《華盛頓郵報》譽為“黑暗和詭異的最好詮釋”，被《紐約時報》贊為“生動多變的一本書。”
Andrew Taylor is the award-winning author of a number of crime novels, including the Dougal series, the Lydmouth books and the Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed ITV drama ‘Fallen Angel’. ‘The American Boy’ was a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club choice. He and his wife live with their children in the Forest of Dean.
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