书名：Innocent Blood 无辜之血 P·D·詹姆斯

作者：P. D. James

出版社名称：Faber & Faber

出版时间：2019

语种：英语

ISBN：9780571350766

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

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.

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.