别墅 The Villa 英文原版 Rachel Hawkins 医学保健科普百科小说

基本信息

Format Hardback | 288 pages

Dimensions 154 x 233 x 25.65mm | 300g

Publication date 20 Feb 2023

Publisher St Martin's Press

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

ISBN10 125028001X

ISBN13 9781250280015

书籍信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

小时候，艾米丽和国际象棋是形影不离的。但是到了30多岁，他们的关系已经被他们成年生活的要求搞得很紧张。因此，当Chess建议去意大利旅行时，Emily抓住机会与她很好的朋友重新联系。

奥维多的Aestas别墅现在是一个高端的度假屋，但在1974年，它被称为Rosato别墅，被一个臭名昭著的摇滚明星Noel Gordon租下过夏天。为了重新点燃他的创作火花，诺埃尔邀请了新晋音乐家皮尔斯-谢尔顿（Pierce Sheldon）加入，还有皮尔斯的女友玛丽和她的继妹拉拉。但他也启动了一连串的事件，导致玛丽写出了有史以来伟大的恐怖小说之一，拉拉创作了一张白金唱片--并以皮尔斯的残忍谋杀告终。

随着艾米丽对别墅复杂历史的挖掘，她开始认为1974年那个致命的夏天可能有更多的故事。也许皮尔斯的谋杀案不仅仅是一个关于性和摇滚乐出错的故事，而是可能发生了更多险恶的事情--而且在玛丽和拉拉留下的现在具有代表性的作品中可能隐藏着一些线索。

然而，艾米丽越是接近真相，她就越是感到她和国际象棋之间的关系紧张。随着过去的秘密被揭开，现在同样危险的背叛也出现了--而且看起来在夏天结束之前，别墅会有另一个受害者。

As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So, when Chess suggests a girl's trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend.

Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites up-and-coming musician, Pierce Sheldon to join him, as well as Pierce's girlfriend, Mari, and her stepsister, Lara. But he also sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Mari writing one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Lara composing a platinum album - and ends in Pierce's brutal murder.

As Emily digs into the villa's complicated history, she begins to think there might be more to the story of that fateful summer in 1974. That perhaps Pierce's murder wasn't just a tale of sex, and rock & roll gone wrong, but that something more sinister might have occurred - and that there might be clues hidden in the now-iconic works that Mari and Lara left behind.

Yet the closer that Emily gets to the truth, the more tension she feels developing between her and Chess. As secrets from the past come to light, equally dangerous betrayals from the present also emerge - and it begins to look like the villa will claim another victim before the summer ends.

作者简介

RACHEL HAWKINS是《纽约时报》畅销书《楼上的妻子》和《鲁莽的女孩》的作者，也是为年轻读者写的多部书。她的作品已被翻译到十几个国家。她在奥本大学研究维多利亚时代文学中的性别和性问题，目前居住在阿拉巴马州。

RACHEL HAWKINS is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs and Reckless Girls, as well as multiple books for young readers. Her work has been translated in over a dozen countries. She studied gender and sexuality in Victorian literature at Auburn University and currently lives in Alabama.