THE RINGMASTER
Book ID/图书代码： 05430014B72289
English Summary/英文概要： After the events described in Vanda Symon’s debut crime novel Overkill, our hero Sam is now training to be a detective at Dunedin Central. The novel begins with the brutal murder of a young female student, one of a number of vicious murders in the region. Being on the lowest rung of the ladder, Sam finds herself assigned not to the murder enquiry but to the local visiting circus, which is being harassed by animal rights activists. Meanwhile, a stalker has been trashing her car and is getting nasty...Sam finds herself at the very centre of the murder investigation when she realises that the itinerary of the touring circus matches precisely the locations of the unsolved murders around the country. The murders seem to correspond with the presence of the circus in town. Sam’s insight is a break-through, and soon the investigation centres on the circus and its abrasive owner Terry Benjamin. But when another young Dunedin student is murdered, the killer is now revealed to be much closer to home. Who else is on the murderer’s list? The killer is now on Sam’s tail and she’s in great danger.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一名大学生在山姆•谢泼德新家的植物园内被杀, 案发时，她在新西兰的但尼丁市接受侦探培训。而来此访问演出的亲爱的兄弟马戏团似乎涉案其中……
Awards/获奖情况："how refreshing to find a murder mystery, written in New Zealand, set in New Zealand, and thoroughly good entertainment" Naylor Hillary, Weekend Press
About the Author/作者介绍： 温达现在和丈夫、孩子住在达尼丁。她是新西兰作家协会奥塔哥南部分会的主席。她每月要为作家协会的作家主持一小时的广播节目。每月为电视9频道的道格尔 史蒂芬达尼丁日记节目写书评。她的第一本小说是2007年的《Overkill》。企鹅出版社因为这本书而要与她签长期合同。她的第二本书是第一本的系列小说《The Ringmaster》2008年出版，2009年出版了第三本小说《Containment》。Vanda now lives in Dunedin with her husband and two young sons. She is the Chair of the Otago Southland Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors. She produces and hosts a monthly one hour radio show for the Society of Authors on Toroa Radio, the Dunedin Community Station. She also does monthly book reviews for Dougal Stevenson’s Dunedin Diary programme on Channel 9 Television. Overkill (2007) was her first fiction novel and Vanda was ecstatic when Penguin New Zealand decided not only did they want to publish it, but they wanted a series of crime fiction novels about Sam Shephard. They loved Sam as much as she did. The second in the series The Ringmaster was published in 2008 and the third, Containment, in 2009.
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