GARNETHILL
Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B56170
English Summary/英文概要： Maureen O’Donnell wasn’t born lucky. A psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, she’s stuck in a dead-end job and a secretive relationship with Douglas, a shady therapist. Her few comforts are making up stories to tell her psychiatrist, the company of friends, and the sweet balm of whisky. She is about to end her affair with Douglas when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living room with his throat slit. Viewed in turn by the police as a suspect and as an uncooperative, unstable witness, Maureen is even suspected by her alcoholic mother and self-serving sisters of being involved.
Worse than that, the police won’t tell her anything about Douglas’s death. Panic-stricken and feeling betrayed by friends and family, Maureen begins to doubt her own version of events. She retraces Douglas’s desperate last days and picks up a horrifying trail of rape, deception…and suppressed scandal at a local psychiatric hospital where she had been an inmate. But the patients won’t talk and the staff are afraid, and when a second brutalized corpse is discovered, Maureen realises that unless she gets to the killer first, her life is in danger.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 莫林•奥唐纳生来不幸。是一饱受性孽待残害的精神病患者，她受困于一份没有前途的工作之中，并与一位名声不好的治疗师，道格拉斯维持着一段隐秘的关系。她仅有的一些慰藉便是向她的心理治疗师，公司的朋友，和几位知心酒友，讲述自己编造的故事。当她在一日清晨醒来，决定结束自己与道格拉斯结束关系是，却发现他在自己的卧室内喉咙被割。
被警方视为一位不合作，和情绪不稳定的证人和嫌疑犯，莫林甚至遭到自己酗酒的母亲和涉案自私的姐妹们的排斥怀疑。更糟的是，警方不会向她透露任何有关道格拉斯死讯的信息，惊慌失措之下，莫林感到自己被家人和朋友给出卖了，她开始怀疑自己看待事物的原来版本。她重新追忆了自己和道格拉斯生命最后一天，可怕的强奸经过，欺骗和扑面而来的丑闻最终让她入住了当地的一家精神病院。但医院的病患不会和她交谈，而工作人员都对她避而远之，而当第二具被孽的尸体被发现时，莫林意识到除非她自己先找到这位凶手，否则她的人生将永无安宁。（Sandy）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 丹尼斯•米娜( Denise Mina)，1966年出生于英国格拉斯哥，犯罪小说作家和剧作家。父亲是位工程师，因其工作原因，一家人在18年内迁居21次，辗转于巴黎、海牙、伦敦、苏格兰和卑尔根等地。米娜16岁时离开学校，从事过多种低技能的工作，像酒吧女招待、餐厅帮工和厨师、肉食品加工厂工人以及照料老人和危重病人的护工。20多岁后重返校园，在格拉斯哥大学获得法学学士学位。20世纪90年代，她一边撰写关于女罪犯精神疾病的博士论文，一边在斯特拉恩克莱德大学教授犯罪学和刑法，就在此时萌发了创作犯罪类小说的念头。As an academic researcher, Denise Mina has written extensively on the medicalization of deviant women, and until recently she taught criminology and Criminal Law. She is the author of Garnethill, for which she won the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel in 1998, Exile, Resolution and Sanctum. She lives with her partner and young son in Glasgow.
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