Paperback. Pub Date :2014-06-19 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: Little. Brown and Company ... When novelist Owen Quine goes missing. his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike At first. Mrs Quine just thinks.. her husband has gone off by himself for a few days-as he has done before-and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.But as Strike investigates. it becomes clear that there is more to Quines disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published. it would ruin lives-meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances. it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer. a killer unlike any Strike has encountered b...

平裝。出版日期：2014年6月19號。頁數：464頁。語言：英文。出版商：Little. Brown and Company　　小說家歐文‧奎因失蹤後，他太太尋求私家偵探凱慕蓉‧史特萊克的幫助。奎因太太認為丈夫只是像平常一樣離家數天而已，她請史特萊克找到丈夫並帶他回家。但隨著史特萊克的調查展開，奎因的消失並不是奎因太太想得那麼簡單！小說家完成了一篇小說手稿，裡頭寫著他週遭所有人不堪入目的故事，因此若小說出版了，這將會毀了他人的生活，這代表外頭有許多人想置奎因於死地。後來，奎因的屍體被尋獲，他在古怪的情形下被殘忍殺害，史特萊克從沒遇過這樣的殺手，而要了解這名冷血殺手的動機，便成了與時間的競賽…