From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards.
Bestselling author Mariah Stewart proved she can knock ’em dead with the best when she delivered the resounding one-two-three punch of her suspense “thrillogy”–Dead Wrong, Dead Certain, and Dead Even. Now, in her anticipated hardcover debut, she’ s back to finish off this stunning series with her hottest shot yet.
Two years ago, a major FBI undercover drug deal suddenly went south– and special agent Dylan Shields went down in a hail of bullets. When the dust cleared, his fellow agent (and fiancée) Anne Marie McCall was left alone with too many unanswered questions and nothing to do but hit the job as hard as she could to dull the pain. Only now is she beginning to ease up on her punishing routine as a Bureau profiler and starting to let some light in again. and. Detective Evan Crosby had a lot to do with drawing Annie back into life, and she’s not about to let her chance at happiness with him slip away.
But before she can embrace a bright new future, she must grapple with the dangerous past whose demons of doubt and suspicion won’t let her sleep at night . . . and whose dead will never rest in peace until someone digs up the truth and deals out the payback. That means going places where no one– including the FBI–wants Annie to be and cutting through a minefield of smoke and mirrors, politics and intimidation, dirty tricks and deadly threats, in order to make a cold case hot enough to get the right people sweating. The harder Annie squeezes, the more blood, lies, and betrayal she wrings out . . . and the closer she comes to connecting a face to the trigger finger that blew away her dreams–and Dylan Shields. What she doesn’t know is that the killer she’s closing in on is looking for closure too. The kind that only Annie’s death can bring.
From the Hardcover edition.
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从这本书的标题《Dead End》本身,就充满了想象的空间。它很容易让人联想到绝境、困境,甚至是某种终结。当我看到这个标题的时候,脑海里立刻浮现出各种各样的场景:是陷入僵局的调查?是一场无路可逃的追逐?还是某种精神上的束缚?这样的标题,本身就构成了一个巨大的引力场,吸引着我去探索它背后到底隐藏着怎样的故事,以及这个“Dead End”到底意味着什么。这种命名上的艺术,往往预示着作品本身的深刻性和复杂性。
评分这本书的封面设计就很有意思,那种暗沉的色调和略显杂乱的排版,第一眼望过去就充满了故事感。我之前也看过一些类似的风格,但《Dead End》在细节上处理得尤其到位。比如,封面上那个模糊的人物剪影,你仔细看的话,会发现他/她身上穿的衣服似乎有一些不寻常的纹路,而且光线投射的角度也很有讲究,让整个画面充满了悬念。我甚至联想到了一些经典的悬疑片海报,那种“你靠近了,但真相还在黑暗中”的感觉。
评分我特别喜欢那种在阅读过程中,不断被情节牵引着,时而紧张、时而疑惑,甚至时不时会冒出“接下来会发生什么?”的惊叹的体验。《Dead End》在这一点上做得非常出色。它就像一辆在蜿蜒山路上疾驰的列车,你永远不知道下一个转弯会是什么风景,是惊险的悬崖,还是豁然开朗的山谷。作者在叙事节奏的把控上,可以说相当老道,总能在恰当的时候抛出一些引人入胜的线索,又或者制造一些出人意料的转折,让我忍不住一口气读下去。
评分拿到这本书的时候,我最先注意到的是它的纸质,有一种温润的触感,不是那种廉价的闪光纸,而是带着一点点亚麻的质感,翻页的时候沙沙作响,这让我瞬间就进入了一种沉浸式的阅读状态。书的装帧也很扎实,缝线牢固,不像有些书看几遍就散架了。《Dead End》的字号和行距也恰到好处,即使长时间阅读也不会觉得疲惫,这一点对于喜欢沉浸式阅读体验的我来说,简直是福音。它让我觉得,作者和出版社在细节上都花了很多心思,是为了让读者有更好的阅读体验。
评分我是一个对书的“氛围感”很在意的人,尤其是读一些需要想象力的作品。《Dead End》给我的第一印象就是一种挥之不去、却又难以言喻的压抑感。这种感觉不是那种直接的惊吓或者血腥,而是一种渗透到字里行间的、细微的、令人不安的氛围。我甚至能在阅读的时候,想象出那种空气中弥漫着潮湿和陈旧的味道,以及远处传来的、模模糊糊的声响。这种氛围营造得非常成功,让我不禁想知道,是什么样的故事,才会诞生出这样一种独特的“气场”。
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