Her name was Karen Whiffield. She was thirty-two<br >years old, had shoulder-length raven black hair, a trim but well-<br >rounded figure and was about five foot seven. She lay on her<br >stomach in the middle of a king-size divan bed, her head turned<br >over to the left and facing the outside wall. Her ankles, wrists<br >and elbows were roped together and she had been gagged with a<br >pair of tights. The green silk dress she was wearing had been<br >raised above her hips and somebody had burned her thighs and<br >naked buttocks with the glowing ember of a cigarette. That same<br >somebody had then held a small-caliber revolver to her head and<br >put two bullets into the brain.<br > The media were going to have a field day with this one, Coghill<br >thought bitterly. It was the kind of juicy murder with sexual<br >overtones they could really get their teeth into: well-to-do, at-<br >tractive young housewife tortured and shot dead in her secluded,<br >executive-style house, half a mile from the grounds of the All<br >England Lawn Tennis Club. They d been quick off the mark too.<br >The 999 call had been received by the police station in Wimble-<br >don at nine twenty-seven; by the time he d arrived from V District<br >headquarters in Kingston some fifteen minutes later, two local<br >reporters and a press photographer were already loitering outside<br >the house.<br > The press would want a statement from him and soon, but<br >right now there wasn t much he could give them, apart from the<br >victim s name and age. He d got that information from Detective<br >Sergeant Mace, the duty CID officer at Wimbledon, who d ar-<br >rived on the scene shortly after a Panda car had responded to the<br >999 call. Mace was downstairs, still interviewing the Whitfields <br ><br >
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评分这部作品的语言风格,说实话,让我眼前一亮,完全出乎我的意料。它摆脱了许多当代小说流行的那种过于口语化或矫揉造作的腔调,选择了一种精准、克制而又充满张力的表达方式。作者的遣词造句极其考究,每一个副词和形容词的选择都像经过了千锤百炼,恰到好处地烘托了场景或人物情绪,不多一分则嫌单薄,多一分则显啰嗦。特别是那些心理描写的部分,寥寥数语就能勾勒出人物内心波涛汹涌的情感暗流,这种“少即是多”的写作哲学,在当今文坛中尤为可贵。我甚至会时不时地停下来,反复咀嚼某一个绝妙的句子结构,感受文字本身带来的韵律美感和力量感。
评分对于喜欢深度探讨社会议题的读者来说,这本书简直是一份盛宴。它毫不留情地撕开了某些行业光鲜外表下的腐朽内核,探讨了权力、金钱与良知之间永恒的冲突。我特别赞赏作者在刻画那些处于权力顶端的人物时,并没有脸谱化地将他们塑造成纯粹的恶人,而是赋予了他们复杂而矛盾的动机。你甚至能在某些瞬间,对他们产生一丝不易察觉的同情,这种道德上的模糊地带,正是作者高明之处。它迫使读者跳出非黑即白的二元对立思维,去思考“合理性”与“正义性”之间的微妙界限。读完后,我花了好几天时间整理思绪,它引发的关于社会结构和个人责任的思考,远远超出了故事本身带来的阅读快感。
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评分这本小说简直是场思想的角力,读起来让人欲罢不能。作者对人性的刻画入木三分,那些在道德和利益的十字路口挣扎的角色,他们的每一个选择都像一把锋利的刀,直插读者的内心深处。我特别欣赏作者处理复杂人际关系的手法,那种微妙的张力,让人屏息凝神,生怕错过任何一个细微的情绪波动。故事的节奏把握得极好,起承转合之间,总有那么一两个让人拍案叫绝的反转,让你不得不重新审视之前的所有判断。而且,这本书的语言风格非常独特,时而如同古典文学般典雅细腻,时而又像现代的快节奏电影,充满了冲击力。读完之后,那种回味无穷的感觉,简直就像品尝了一杯层次丰富的陈年佳酿,需要时间去细细品味其中的酸甜苦辣。它不仅仅是一个故事,更像是一面镜子,照出了我们自己内心深处那些不愿承认的私心和挣扎。
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