ROLLOVER

Book ID/图书代码： 07633012B58549

English Summary/英文概要： Nikki Doyle’s career is fast tracking nicely at the company managing the UK’s National Lottery. She provides security for lucky winners—much like a witness protection program— before con-men and journalists descend on them. In debut novel Rollover, her assignment to a pair of cranky, ungrateful 10 million pound lottery winners tests her mettle and Nikki, always cheeky, intuitive, quick-witted and feisty, proves to be a magnet for trouble.

Thunderball is the second in the series and Nikki is bounced/burned/beaten but never defeated as she is taken out of her comfort zone and dropped into her newly dead boyfriend Gavin’s world.

In Miss Scarlet in the Library with the Lead Piping, book three, Nikki manages construction for a millionaire lottery winner’s interactive theme park based on the game, Cluedo. What could go wrong? Everything, of course. A real estate scam, missing persons, mysterious murders, exploding bombs, and as usual, Nikki is in the thick of it.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Nikki Doyle所在的公司管理着英国国家彩票，她为获奖者提供保护。这很像一个证人保护程序，Nikki的责任就是保护获得巨额奖金的人们，防备那些骗子和记者。在Nikki这个人物首次登场的小说中，一对脾气暴躁又忘恩负义的千万磅彩票中奖者考验了她的勇气。Nikki总是大大咧咧、直觉敏锐，思维敏捷和争强好胜，事实证明她到处在吸引麻烦。

第二部中的Nikki同样经历各种状况但永不言败。在第三部小说中仍有一个房地产骗局、人员失踪、神秘谋杀、炸弹爆炸等等，而Nikki早已深陷其中。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：Longhurst的处女作是一本神秘的恐怖小说，关于一群在英国专门保护彩票获奖者的人。其中主人公Veronica Doyle喜欢说一句口头禅：“愿你活在有趣的时代”，这句话太正确了，因为她的经历简直不能更“有趣”了。故事开始时，Doyle住在一个破败的公寓里，因为六个月前涉及到银行抢劫案而接受精神治疗。她的新客户是一对爱争吵的、看起来不怎么靠得住的夫妇，一次偶然的房地产购买机会将她和她的客户带到了Storr Downs，她的家乡。Dolyes逐渐发现她的客户、同事以及爱人之间有着无可预料的新的交集。小说情节轻快，有些转折甚至突然，情节线也不是按部就班。此外，一些支线情节也比预想中有更重大的意义。不过生动的角色刻画、对于英国文化以及地理环境的详细描写可以让人品味到本书的质感和温暖，从而忽视情节的相对松散。Longhurst的小说娴熟地在惊悚片和温馨家庭剧之间来回切换。

KIRKUS REVIEW

Longhurst’s debut mystery-thriller revolves around a team that protects lottery winners in the United Kingdom. An oft-quoted proverb/curse, “May you live in interesting times,” may as well be the unofficial motto of Veronica Doyle, the protagonist of Longhurst’s novel. As this twisty tale demonstrates, however, things are rarely so interesting that they can’t get more so. As the story begins, Doyle is living in a poorly maintained London flat and undergoing therapy for her involvement in a bank robbery six months prior. The only success in her life comes from her job as a lottery-winner protection agent for Avalon, the managing firm of the United Kingdom’s national lottery. When a truculent, shady couple becomes her latest clients, a serendipitous real estate opportunity in her home village of Storr Downs allows her to place her clients in a new life while revisiting her old one. Old wounds still hurt, though, and on top of her homecoming issues, Doyle finds the lives of her clients, colleagues and loved ones intersecting in new, unpredictable ways. Told from Doyle’s snarky but wounded viewpoint, Longhurst’s well-modulated plot pushes forward briskly. Some of the transitions between sections are abrupt, and not every plot thread is resolved along the way—Doyle’s brother, whose death as a young man shaped her life in numerous ways, isn’t brought into focus, and the ending scene at his grave doesn’t punctuate the narrative definitively. In addition, some side plots weigh more heavily than their presence warrants, such as the bad blood between Doyle and her former best friend. However, the vivacious characters and highly detailed specifics of English culture and geography provide texture and warmth that overcome the loose plot threads. Between the fully realized setting and complex heroine, Longhurst’s novel adeptly juggles the plot threads into a briskly moving tale that’s one part thriller and two parts family drama.

About the Author/作者介绍： Paula Longhurst是个住在犹他州的伦敦女孩，她在盐湖城的The King’s English Bookstore工作。

Paula Longhurst is a London girl now living in Utah and working as bookseller extraordinaire at The King’s English Bookstore in Salt Lake City.

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