THE BONES OF PARIS: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE
Book ID/图书代码： 12731113B64550
English Summary/英文概要： New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, consistently writes richly detailed and thoroughly suspenseful novels that bring a distant time and place to brilliant life. Now, in this thrilling new book, King leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the Jazz Age—and reveals the darkest secrets of its denizens.
Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie de bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. Her family became alarmed when she stopped all communications, and Stuyvesant agreed to track her down. He wholly expects to find her in the arms of some up-and-coming artist, perhaps experimenting with the decadent lifestyle that is suddenly available on every rue and boulevard.
As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the expatriate community of artists and writers, he finds that she is known to many of its famous—and infamous—inhabitants, from Shakespeare and Company’s Sylvia Beach to Ernest Hemingway to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théatre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp, disturbing turn. At the Grand-Guignol, murder, insanity, and sexual perversion are all staged to shocking, brutal effect: depravity as art, savage human nature on stage.
Soon it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Here, amid the glittering lights of the cabarets, hides a monster whose artistic coup de grace is to be rendered in blood. And Stuyvesant will have to descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer . . . sifting through The Bones of Paris.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 劳拉.R.金是纽约时代周刊畅销作家，她广受好评的玛丽.罗素和夏洛克.和马斯系列小说情节细腻，悬疑满布，时间和空间上都有很大的跨越，引人入胜。如今，在她最新的惊悚小说中，劳拉将读者带到巴黎充满活力的爵士时代，揭露当地人不为人知最阴暗的秘密。
法国巴黎，1929年9月。哈里斯.史岱文森接到了每个私人侦探都梦寐以求的任务，他在蒙帕纳斯的各个咖啡吧和酒吧调查一个年轻漂亮女人的踪迹。这个失踪的女人名为菲利帕.克罗斯比，22岁，波士顿人，曾在巴黎居住，以做模特和演戏为生。家人无法联系到她后感到紧张万分，委托史岱文森搜寻她。史岱文森猜想她应该和某个刚崭露头角的艺术家混在一起过着奢靡的生活。
史岱文森根据菲利帕留下的蛛丝马迹，找到了一群外籍艺术家和作家，这些人对菲利帕都很了解。史岱文森根据线索来到了蒙帕纳斯的大木偶剧场，调查在这里初现端倪。谋杀，精神错乱，性虐都在舞台上以震惊，残忍的效果表达出来，人性的野蛮，堕落的艺术都一一赤裸裸地呈现。
很快史岱文森就发现一个失踪的女孩只是这个巨大阴谋中的小小一角。在舞台耀眼的灯光下隐藏着及其黑暗的阴谋，史岱文森必须出入险境，找到幕后的杀人凶手。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：“情节一环扣一环，小说结构也相当复杂。”——《书目》
“小说细节紧凑，令人屏息。人物令人印象深刻，情节回味无穷。”——《西雅图时代报》
“An ambitious departure from [King’s] Edgar-winning Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mysteries….King rarely disappoints and her version of jazz-age Paris and its denizens is a treat. This is vintage King and The Bones of Paris should delight her flock of fans.”--Mystery Scene
“Fans of Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris will feel right at home in the Jazz Age Paris setting….But beyond the cameos and the bohemian atmosphere, there is a compelling thriller here and some fascinating fictional characters to go with the real-life ones. As always with King, the plot is tricky but marvelously constructed, delivering twists that not only surprise but also deepen the story and its multiple levels of meaning. Break out that dusty bottle of absinthe you have stored away and settle in for a treat.”--Booklist (starred)
“An impressive mystery set in 1929 Paris. In the arresting preface…The trail leads [Styvesant] to a tantalizing mystery involving the Theatre du Grand-Guignol and artists who use human bones to create their work. Readers will hope to see more of Grey…and Stuyvesant in future books.” --Publishers Weekly
“The dark side of Jazz Age Paris….King presents Stuyvesant’s tour of the lower depths of the Parisian avant-garde in terms both decorous and creepy….Evocative period detail and challenging aesthetic adventures….” --Kirkus
About the Author/作者介绍： 劳拉R.金自1987年开始写罪案小说，她的作品获得了多项著名大奖，如约翰•克雷西奖，埃德加奖，尼禄和麦卡维提奖。她是当代最受褒奖的悬疑小说家，玛丽.罗素和夏洛克.和马斯系列尤为受欢迎。她现居于北加州。Laurie R. King has been writing crime fiction since 1987 and won many awards for her work in fiction including the prestigious John Creasey Dagger, the Edgar, the Nero and Macavity Awards. She is the author of highly praised stand-alone suspense novels and a contemporary mystery series, as well as the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series. She lives in North California.
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