Innocent Blood

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 432 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571350766

Published:7 Feb 2019

Weight:354g

Dimensions:130 x 198 x 25 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

18岁时，菲利帕得知自己的身世：她的亲生父母是一对强j杀人犯，父亲已死在狱中，母亲即将获释。

她一步步接近母亲，却在看似渐渐弥合的亲情之中，走向更为残酷的真相。

凶手、凶手的女儿、受害者的亲人……每个人的悲剧，最终都指向他们童年的创伤。那些伤痛，犹如盘旋不散的游魂，跨越 数十年，依然在悄无声息地改变着所有人的命运。

Innocent Blood is a stand-alone thriller and chilling mystery from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.

A stand-alone thriller from P. D. James.

Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts.

Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity and the meaning of life.

编辑推荐

◆深埋十年的身世之谜，筹划半生的复仇计划，一场关于原生家庭的漫长梦魇！

◆童年结束了，童年的伤痛也该过去了，迎接你的是崭新而舒展的生活。

◆P.D.詹姆斯是继柯南·道尔、阿加莎·克里斯蒂之后，第三位被请进“世界推理小说名人堂”的作家。

◆P.D.詹姆斯荣获 推理小说两大至高终身成就奖：英国犯罪小说协会“钻石匕首奖” ，美国推理作家协会“大师奖”

◆《无辜之血》是P.D.詹姆斯进军美国文坛的成名作，让其在大西洋彼岸迅速风靡。

◆P.D.詹姆斯早年在刑法部门负责青少年犯罪案件，《无辜之血》深受这段经历的影响，以一个“寻母悲剧”探讨了血缘、救赎、自我认知的深刻主题。

作者简介

P.D. 詹姆斯出生于英国伦敦牛津，尽管只有高中毕业，但詹姆斯凭借其勤奋自修的学识，与文笔脱俗的创作，得到文学圈极高的赞誉。她三十八岁开始发表作品，四十二岁时完成长篇推理《掩上她的脸》（Cover Her Face，1962），赢得文坛一片赞赏。她的作品《夜莺的尸衣》和《教堂谋杀案》均获得CWA和MWA最佳小说奖。

由于写作有成，她获得许多国际知名文学奖，包括在英国犯罪作家推理协会颁发的、有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的“钻石匕首奖”，并受英国皇室勋封为女男爵，更获颁美国侦探作家协会终身成就奖——“大师奖”，以及“爱伦·坡奖”。

P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).

James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.