具体描述
Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders
Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to the dead, and an eccentric profiler known as "the living Sherlock Holmes"-were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided one day over lunch that something had to be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The three men invited the greatest collection of forensic investigators ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to the Downtown Club in Philadelphia to begin an audacious quest: to bring the coldest killers in the world to an accounting. Named for the first modern detective, the Parisian eugène François Vidocq-the flamboyant Napoleonic real-life sleuth who inspired Sherlock Holmes-the Vidocq Society meets monthly in its secretive chambers to solve a cold murder over a gourmet lunch.
The Murder Room draws the reader into a chilling, darkly humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from their Victorian dining room to hunt the ruthless killers of a millionaire's son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.
Acclaimed bestselling author Michael Capuzzo's brilliant storytelling brings true crime to life more realistically and vividly than it has ever been portrayed before. It is a world of dazzlingly bright forensic science; true evil as old as the Bible and dark as the pages of Dostoevsky; and a group of flawed, passionate men and women, inspired by their own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness, and justice in a world gone mad.
作者简介
Born in Boston and educated at Northwestern University, Michael Capuzzo is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Close to Shore, a historical thriller of the true story that inspired Jaws. Winner of many writing prizes as a syndicated columnist and a staff reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald, and for stories in magazines including Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Life, he lives in Pennsylvania, where he and his wife publish a prize-winning storytelling magazine, Mountain Home.
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这本小说简直让人欲罢不能，情节的跌宕起伏和人物的刻画都达到了一个极高的水准。作者在构建故事线索时展现出了惊人的才华，每一个转折都出人意料，却又在回溯时发现一切早有伏笔。我尤其欣赏作者对于心理描写的细腻程度，那种在重压之下角色内心的挣扎、恐惧和绝望被描绘得淋漓尽致，仿佛我能真切地感受到他们的呼吸和心跳。开篇就迅速将读者拽入一个充满悬念和不安的氛围中，完全没有拖泥带水的感觉。故事节奏的把握堪称教科书级别，时而紧张得让人喘不过气，时而又在关键时刻留出喘息的空间，让读者得以整理思绪，准备迎接下一轮的冲击。至于那些配角的塑造，也绝非工具人般的存在，每个人都有自己复杂的动机和背景故事，为整个叙事增添了厚重的质感。读完之后，我久久不能平静，脑海中不断回放着那些精彩的对白和关键场景，它不仅仅是一部消遣之作，更像是一次对人性和道德边界的深刻探讨。那种被精妙布局完全掌控的感觉，实在是一种极佳的阅读体验。
评分坦率地说，这本书的文笔是它最引人注目的亮点之一。那种老派的、带着一丝冷峻的叙事腔调，非常契合故事本身的基调。它不像一些现代悬疑小说那样追求快节奏的感官刺激，而是更注重氛围的营造和细节的打磨。很多段落的描述，即便是描写一个普通的房间或一段对话，都充满了画面感和象征意义，读起来有一种品味经典文学作品的韵味。作者对于环境的描写尤其出色，那种阴沉、压抑的场景设定，仿佛成了推动剧情发展的另一个无形角色，无声地影响着书中人物的决策。我喜欢它那种克制的情感表达方式，所有的激烈情绪都蕴含在看似平淡的文字之下，需要读者主动去挖掘和体会。这种需要“投入”才能完全领会的阅读过程，极大地提升了阅读的深度和满足感。它让人慢下来，去品味每一个词语的选择，去感受文字背后隐藏的张力，而不是囫囵吞枣地追逐下一个事件。对于追求文学性的读者来说，这无疑是一场盛宴。
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评分这部作品在探讨复杂人性方面做得非常出色，它成功地避开了黑白分明的二元对立，将主要人物都置于一个灰色地带。每个人物都有其光辉和阴暗的两面，他们的选择往往不是基于简单的“好”与“坏”，而是迫于环境、历史创伤或是某种无法抗拒的宿命。尤其是主角面对道德困境时的犹豫和挣扎，让我深感真实。你会发现，真正的恐怖往往不是来自外部的威胁，而是源于人心深处的裂痕和秘密的腐蚀性。作者通过一系列巧妙的心理侧写，揭示了人们在极端压力下是如何扭曲自我认知，并为自己的行为寻找合理性的过程。这种对“为什么会这样”的深入挖掘，远比“发生了什么”更令人震撼。它迫使读者跳出自己的道德舒适区，去理解那些在常理之外的行为逻辑，从而引发对自身局限性的反思。这是一部需要动脑筋去理解角色深层动机的作品，绝非肤浅的娱乐。
评分the book is really hard to read. the chapters just jump from here to there, like it has been reshuffled and arranged randomly.
评分the book is really hard to read. the chapters just jump from here to there, like it has been reshuffled and arranged randomly.
评分the book is really hard to read. the chapters just jump from here to there, like it has been reshuffled and arranged randomly.
评分the book is really hard to read. the chapters just jump from here to there, like it has been reshuffled and arranged randomly.
评分the book is really hard to read. the chapters just jump from here to there, like it has been reshuffled and arranged randomly.
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