HUMAN REMAINS
Book ID/图书代码： 11197512B58166
English Summary/英文概要： How well do you know your neighbours? Would you notice if they lived or died?Police analyst Annabel wouldn’t describe herself as lonely. Her work keeps her busy and the needs of her ageing mother and her cat are more than enough to fill her time when she’s on her own. But Annabel is shocked when she discovers her neighbour’s decomposing body in the house next door, and appalled to think that no one, including herself, noticed her absence.
Back at work she sets out to investigate, despite her police officer colleagues’ lack of interest, and finds data showing that such cases are frighteningly common in her own home town.
A chilling thriller and a hymn to all the lonely people, whose individual voices haunt the pages, Elizabeth Haynes’ new novel is a deeply disturbing and powerful thriller that preys on our darkest fears, showing how vulnerable we are when we live alone, and how easily ordinary lives can fall apart when no one is watching.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对于你的邻居，你又了解多少？对于他们的生死，你又是否曾注意过？
警局分析员阿拉贝尔不愿承认自己是孤独的。工作使她忙碌，而照料年迈的母亲和爱猫则足以填满她剩下的时间。然而当阿拉贝尔发现住在隔壁的邻居竟遭人杀害，且尸体还被人所肢解时，她感到无比的震惊，包括她自己在内，竟然无一人发现这一惨案。
回到警局后，她决定就此展开调查，尽管她的警局同事们对这一案件兴趣缺缺，并且经过调查她发现此类案件在她所生活的小镇可谓十分平常。这是一个骇人的惊悚故事，同时也是对每一个孤独之人的颂歌，他们的声音孤独的盘旋在全书的字里行间，这部来自伊丽莎白•海尼斯的全新小说作品是一部深刻而有力的惊悚之作，捕捉着我们每个人内心深处最黑暗的恐惧，并展示了当我们独自生活时，我们是多么的脆弱，当我们不在受到关心和注意时，哪怕是最简单和平常的生活也可能会轰然崩塌。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：From its uncompromising prologue - a young woman being bludgeoned to death in a ditch - Haynes’s powerful account of domestic violence is disquieting, yet unsensationalist. This is a gripping book on a topic which can never be highlighted enough. --Guardian
A very impressive first novel. The pain and frustration of OCD is brilliantly evoked and I winced every time Cathy embarked on yet another ritual. The contrast between Cathy’s two lives is cleverly drawn and the hesitancy in her new relationship is very believable. This is a fantastic personal read with plenty for a reading group to discuss. --NewBooks Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： 伊丽莎白•海尼斯是一名警局情报分析员。2006年举办的年度全国小说写作月活动以及韦斯特•迪恩学院的创造性写作课程的鼓励和支持使得她从此开始了小说创作。作者现与其丈夫及儿子居住在肯特郡梅德斯通附近的一个小村庄里。其第一部小说作品《潜入黑暗之角》曾是亚马逊明日之星的赢家，并被译为30余种语言。她的第二部小说《浪潮之复仇》已于2012年3月出版问世。Elizabeth Haynesis a police intelligence analyst. She started writing fiction in 2006 thanks to the annual challenge of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo) and the encouragement of the creative writing courses at West Dean College. She lives in a village near Maidstone, Kent, with her husband and son. Her first novel, Into the Darkest Corner, was the winner of Amazon’s Rising Stars and has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, Revenge of the Tide, was published in March 2012.
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