GOLD DIGGER
Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B57296
English Summary/英文概要： The warmth of him, the glorious warmth, was fading by the minute.
In a huge old school house by the sea, full of precious paintings, Thomas Porteous is dying. His much younger wife Di holds him and mourns. She knows that soon, despite her being his sole inheritor, Thomas’s relatives will descend on the collection that was the passion of both of their lives.
And descend they do. The two needy daughters, who were poisoned against their father by their defecting mother, are now poison themselves. The family regard Thomas’s wealth as theirs by right, with the exception of young Patrick, who adored his grandfather and is torn between his parents and Di, the interloper.
The family know Di’s weaknesses, and she has to learn theirs. After all, she met Thomas when she came to his house to rob him. With the help of an unlikely collection of loners and eccentrics, she sets a trap to hoist the family members on their own greed. And on the night they are lured to the house, Di will be ready.
Or will she?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 他的温度，荣耀的温度，正随着时间一点一点的流逝。
在这座海边的废弃校舍里，满是珍贵的画作，而托马斯•珀特斯正走向生命的尽头。他年轻的妻子紧紧的拥着他，为之哀悼叹息。她清楚地知道，尽管她是遗产的唯一继承人，但托马斯的亲戚们很快就会觊觎这些珍贵画作，尽管画作中记载的全是他们生活的点点滴滴。
而他们也的确如此。托马斯的两个精神空虚的女儿曾被她们叛逃的母亲下毒以对付她们的父亲，而如今，不堪重负的她们决心用毒药让自己解脱。家族里的所有人都理所当然的认为托马斯的财产属于自己，除了年轻的帕特里克。帕特里克崇拜着自己的祖父，然而父母与第三者戴却已然快将他的生活搞的四分五裂了。
这个大家庭知道戴的弱点，同时他也对他们的十分熟悉。毕竟她是在入室抢劫的时候认识托马斯的，在一群孤独怪人的帮助下，戴设下了一个陷阱，让家庭成员们的贪婪欲望不断攀升，并且就在那一夜她将他们引诱到了大宅，一切都已准备就绪。
戴最终会开始行动吗？（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“This excellent mystery, complete with crimes, clues and red herrings, is also a novel of character and a very good one too” Literary Review
“Fyfield specialises in sympathetic portraits of social misfits and the misunderstood . . . This is a subtle but razor-sharp dissection of a family at war” Guardian
“A novel of character in which fully realised protagonists are developed with a skill approaching that of such writers as Iris Murdoch...Her understanding of the way human beings behave when jealousy and resentment power their actions remains as insightful as ever” Independent
About the Author/作者介绍： 弗朗西斯•弗非亚德花费了其绝大多数时间作为一名刑事辩护律师，这份工作极大的促进了其精彩的犯罪小说的创作。作者也因此被授予了金银犯罪小说协会颁发的匕首奖。此外弗朗西斯还从事四号广播电台的常规播音节目，近来，作者做了一些列关于“五线谱故事”的演讲。弗朗西斯现居伦敦与戴尔两地，远眺大海是其爱好所在。Frances Fyfield has spent much of her professional life practising as a criminal lawyer, work which has informed her highly acclaimed crime novels. She has been the recipient of both the Gold and Silver Crime Writers’Association Daggers. She is also a regular broadcaster on Radio 4, most recently as the presenter of the series ’Tales from the Stave’. She lives in London and in Deal, overlooking the sea which is her passion
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：版权已售：英国小布朗出版社（2012年11月出版）Rights sold: UK: Little, Brown/Sphere; US: HarperCollins
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