A Midsummer's Equation

基本信息

作者: Keigo Higashino

Paperback: 400页

出版社: Little Brown UK (2016年10月2日)

语种: 英语

ISBN: 9780349142326                                       

产品尺寸及重量: 129 x 198 x 25 (mm) | 276g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准 

书籍简介

安静的海滨小镇上，成实家经营着一间年久失修的旅馆，游客日渐稀少。盛夏的一天，旅馆迎来了三位与东京有关的客人：帝都大学物理系副教授汤川学、警视厅退休刑警和小学五年级男孩。当晚，汤川学去了居酒屋；男孩和成实的父亲在后院放烟花；刑警晚餐后不见踪影，第二天被发现死在了海边。

警方准备以意外结案，却查不出死者为何来到这个小镇、选择这间旅馆；成实感到奇怪，死者似乎早就认识自己，但两人分明素不相识；男孩隐约觉得看到了奇怪的事情，却无法说清；汤川学发现身边有许多不合逻辑之处，比如旅馆墙上的海景画描绘的并不是这里的风景。

远在东京的一个人喃喃自语：“对不起，是我害了你们。但我什么都不会说，到死也不会。”

Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against the proposed operation, concerned about the environmental impact on the area, known for its pristine waters. The other faction, seeing no future in the town as it is, believes its only hope lies in the development project.

The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort's guests is found dead on the seashore at the base of the local cliffs. The local police at first believe it was a simple accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin to suspect he was murdered, and his body tossed off the cliff to misdirect the police.

As the police try to uncover where Tsukahara was killed and why, Yukawa finds himself enmeshed in yet another confounding case of murder. In a series of twists as complex and surprising as any in Higashino's brilliant, critically acclaimed work, Galileo uncovers the hidden relationship behind the tragic events that led to this murder.

作者简介

东野圭吾，日本推理小说家。大阪府大阪市出生，毕业于大阪府立大学工学部电气工学科，原先于汽车零件供应商日本电装担任工程师。1985年以《放学后》获得第31届江户川乱步奖，随即辞职成为专业作家。

东野圭吾于1999年以《秘密》获第52届日本推理作家协会奖，2006年以《嫌疑犯X的献身》获134届直木赏，此书并一举拿下当年度三大推理小说排行榜的第一名，故有三冠之称。

东野圭吾早期以清新流畅的校园推理起家，并以缜密细致的剧情布局获得“写实派本格”美名，后期东野的创作逐渐突破传统推理的框架，在悬疑、科幻、社会等多个领域都有所涉猎，同时作品亦能兼具文学性、思想性和娱乐性，不停带给读者新鲜的阅读感受。由于本身具有理工基础，曾表示受到想活用科学知识的念头驱使而写出科学推理系列。

虽出道以来有大量推理小说作品，但其中鲜少出现系列侦探角色。目前为止曾在复数作品中登场的角色有加贺恭一郎、汤川学、天下一大五郎、竹内忍等四人，惟登场作品占全部比例甚少，且彼此间并无剧情连贯，不照出版顺序读也没有影响。

东野圭吾的作品颇受影视界青睐，许多作品皆被改编成电影或电视剧，如电影《放学后》、《秘密》、《宿命》、《湖边凶杀案》、《变身》、《嫌疑犯X的献身》、《手纸》、《白夜行》（韩版电影）、《白夜行》（日版电影）、《旁徨之刃》，电视剧《白夜行》、《神探伽利略》（侦探伽利略+预知梦）、《流星之绊》、《恶意》、《名侦探的守则》、《新参者》、《杀意取扱説明书》、《幻夜》（2010秋季日剧）、《秘密》、《分身》（2012冬季日剧）等作品。

KEIGO HIGASHINO is the most widely read author in Japan, with hundreds of millions of copies of his books sold worldwide, and nearly twenty films and television series based on his work. He won the Naoki Prize for The Devotion of Suspect X, his first novel featuring Detective Galileo and, in translation, it was a finalist for both the Edgar Award for Best Novel and the Barry Award. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.