戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。 自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。 希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们
娇生惯养的家猫在四处寻找故事， 勇敢的流浪猫把故事变成了美味。一个现代寓言故事， 告诉你创造世界的秘密。娇生惯养的小猫喵小爪探向黑夜，想为自己闻一个故事。狡猾的狐狸答应给她讲故事，却在心里盘算着如何享用这送上门来的美味。小爪向狐狸一步步走近，越来越近，越来越近……突然——她还没明白怎么回事，一切就这么结束了。…………流浪猫大脾气毛毛带着她的三个饥饿的猫宝宝一路寻觅。但茫茫夜色中没有任何东西可以拿来充饥。毛毛开始在屋顶引吭高歌，她准备给孩子们讲一个故事。没想到，那竟然是一个可以“吃”的故事。一个现代寓言故事，告诉你创造世界的秘密。
娇生惯养的家猫在四处寻找故事， 勇敢的流浪猫把故事变成了美味。一个现代寓言故事， 告诉你创造世界的秘密。娇生惯养的小猫喵小爪探向黑夜，想为自己闻一个故事。狡猾的狐狸答应给她讲故事，却在心里盘算着如何享用这送上门来的美味。小爪向狐狸一步步走近，越来越近，越来越近……突然——她还没明白怎么回事，一切就这么结束了。…………流浪猫大脾气毛毛带着她的三个饥饿的猫宝宝一路寻觅。但茫茫夜色中没有任何东西可以拿来充饥。毛毛开始在屋顶引吭高歌，她准备给孩子们讲一个故事。没想到，那竟然是一个可以“吃”的故事。一个现代寓言故事，告诉你创造世界的秘密。
娇生惯养的家猫在四处寻找故事， 勇敢的流浪猫把故事变成了美味。 一个现代寓言故事， 告诉你创造世界的秘密。 娇生惯养的小猫喵小爪探向黑夜，想为自己闻一个故事。 狡猾的狐狸答应给她讲故事，却在心里盘算着如何享用这送上门来的美味。 小爪向狐狸一步步走近，越来越近，越来越近……突然——她还没明白怎么回事，一切就这么结束了。 …………流浪猫大脾气毛毛带着她的三个饥饿的猫宝宝一路寻觅。 但茫茫夜色中没有任何东西可以拿来充饥。 毛毛开始在屋顶引吭高歌，她准备给孩子们讲一个故事。 没想到，那竟然是一个可以“吃”的故事。 一个现代寓言故事，告诉你创造世界的秘密。
For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about herlife in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was onlythree when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldierand went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence ofthe past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna,Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor ofGerman history, begins investigating the past and finally unearthsthe dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life. Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation oflife during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, ThoseWho Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure tosurvive and the legacy of shame.
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the CostaBrava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, doubleagent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There wasnothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in onefrantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sawhis Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S.and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautifulbetrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by atop-level mole with the world in his fist-- Parsifal.
When long-time bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for twoweeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned.Then, on the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, thebattered body of a woman is found on the outskirts of town. The"good people of Elvestad" can't believe that anyone among themcould be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet way,Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that no one is completelyinnocent--not the cafe owner who knows too much, the girl who wantsthe attention that comes with being a witness, or the bodybuilderwith no outlet for his terrible strength. In "The Indian Bride,"one of Europe's most successful crime writers has crafted anotherchilling page-turner.
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professionaltwenty-something young women don't get visitedby ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara'sgreat-aunt Sadie mysteriously appears, she has onerequest: Lara must find a missing necklace that hadbeen in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and atfirst it seems as though they have nothing in common.But as the mission to find Sadie's necklace leads tointrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very'different "twenties" girls learn some surprisingtruths from and about each other.
Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterflypupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on thepupas skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene orknock it out. What she cant do is discover how the insect behavesin its natural habitatwhich means she doesnt know what steps totake to preserve it from extinction, nor how any particular genemay interact with the environment. Four hundred years ago, afifty-year-old Dutch woman set sail on a solo scientific expeditionto study insect metamorphosis. She could not have imagined theroutine magic that scientists perform todaybut her absoluteinsistence on studying insects in their natural habitats was so farahead of its time that it is only now coming back into favor.Chrysalis restores Maria Sibylla Merian to her rightful place inthe history of science, taking us from golden-age Amsterdam to theSurinam tropics to modern laboratories where Merians insights fuelnew approaches to both ecology and genetics.
Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerousman in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has aplan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the worldfrom her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who isworking under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stophim, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerfutriumph on earth.
