书名：Career of Evil 罪恶生涯

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1000

作者：Robert Galbraith

出版社名称：Sphere

出版时间：2016

语种：英文

ISBN：9780751563597

商品尺寸：12.6 x 3.7 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：580 （以实物为准）

Career of Evil《罪恶生涯》是罗伯特·加尔布雷思（J.K.罗琳化名）的全球畅销书“科莫兰·斯特莱克推理系列”第三部。小说情节极度黑暗，谜底藏得极深，情节在每个关口都出人意外地转折，而对走到个人及职业生涯十字路口的斯特莱克及罗宾的描述也引人入胜。适合J.K.粉和侦探小说忠实粉阅读。 推荐理由：1.《哈利·波特》的作者J.K.罗琳化名罗伯特·加尔布雷思创作的推理小说； 2.国际畅销书《布谷鸟的呼唤》《蚕》续作，斯特莱克系列侦探小说的第三部； 3.当代经典推理小说系列，情节、人物和细节丰富，赢得了评论家和推理小说家的一致喜爱； 4.英文原版，无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平； 5.轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。Career of Evil is the third in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, it is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. Reviews:“Career of Evil is the third--and best--novel in the engaging Cormoran Strike private detective series... [Galbraith has] invented a serial killer for the ages, one who chills us from the book’s grim but riveting opening... This perfectly paced mystery is packed with surprises, all of which play out with flawless crime-fiction logic.”―Jocelyn McClurg,USA Today (4/4 stars) “Gripping... A step forward for the series... An absorbing book, pulpy, fast and satisfying.” ― Charles Finch,New York Times Book Review “Pure pleasure... That’s what makes these novels so good: They are clever, tightly plotted mysteries with all of the most pleasurable elements of the genre (good guy, bad guy, clues, twists, murder!), but with stunning emotional and moral shading.” ―Annalisa Quinn,NPR “Hugely entertaining... This gifted storyteller has taken full command of the new turf... Career of Evil succeeds powerfully on its own terms.” ―Lloyd Sachs,Chicago Tribune “Another triumph... Its darkness is mitigated by its sparkling protagonists.”―Kim Hubbard,People “Strike and Robin are just as magnetic as ever.” ―Michiko Kakutani,New York Times “Sparklingly witty [and] unexpectedly moving” ―Moira Macdonald,Seattle Times

罗宾收到一个包裹，惊恐地发现包裹里是一条女人的断腿。她的老板、伦敦跛脚侦探斯特莱克没有她那么震惊，但也警觉起来。他觉得，有四个他过去认识的人能干出这种事来，这四个人全都擅长不断做出无法言喻的暴行。警方锁定那四人中的一个为嫌疑人，但斯特莱克觉得，那个人并非行凶者。他和罗宾开始自己调查，深入另外三人黑暗而又无常的世界。但更多恐怖的事件发生了，斯特莱克和罗宾已经没有多少时间…… When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible —and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...

Robert Galbraith罗伯特·加尔布雷思，畅销书哈利·波特系列和《偶发空缺》的作者J.K.罗琳（J. K. Rowling）的化名。罗琳毕业于英国埃克塞特大学，英国女作家。1989年，她在前往伦敦的火车旅途中萌生了创作“哈利波特”系列小说的念头。七年后，《哈利波特与魔法石》问世，之后她陆续创作了《哈利波特与密室》《哈利波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》等系列。哈利波特系列小说被译成79种语言，全球销量达4.5亿册。2012年，J.K.罗琳出版小说《偶发空缺》。之后以男性笔名Robert Galbraith陆续出版了Cormoran Strike系列侦探小说，包括《布谷鸟在呼唤》《蚕》《罪恶生涯》。 J.K. Rowling is the author of the sevenHarry Potter novels, which have sold over 450 million copies and have been translated into 79 languages, and three companion books originally published for charity. She is also the author of “The Casual Vacancy,” a novel for adults published in 2012, and, under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, is the author of theCormoran Strikecrime series.

He had not managed to scrub off her blood. A dark line like a parenthesis lay under the middle fingernail of his left hand. He set to digging it out, although he quite liked seeing it there: a memento of the previous day’s pleasures. After a minute’s fruitless scraping, he put the bloody nail in his mouth and sucked. The ferrous tang recalled the smell of the torrent that had splashed wildly onto the tiled floor, spattering the walls, drenching his jeans andturning the peach-coloured bath towels—fluffy, dry and neatly folded—into blood-soaked rags. Colours seemed brighter this morning, the world a lovelier place. He felt serene and uplifted, as though he had absorbed her, as though her life had been transfused into him. They belonged to you once you had killed them: it was a possession way beyond sex. Even to know how they looked at the moment of death was intimacy way past anything two living bodies couldexperience. With a thrill of excitement he reflected that nobody knew what he had done, nor what he was planning to do next. He sucked his middle finger, happy and at peace, leaning up against the warm wall inthe weak April sunshine, his eyes on the house opposite.