作者简介 康奈尔・伍尔里奇（Cornell Woolrich） 生于1903年。19世纪20年代他在哥伦比亚大学时开始创作小说，并于30年代至40年代与雷蒙德・钱德勒以及詹姆士・M・凯恩一起成为“黑色体裁”小说的创始人之一。写出了如《后窗》、《我嫁给了一个死人》之类被称为“色系列”的经典悬念小说。 康奈尔・伍尔里奇于1968年酗酒过度而去世。

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. One woman connected to that massacre is still alive—a mysterious martial arts master who is now the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil. Cracking a crime with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunning—and a swift, avenging blade.

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. ""I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we're going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book."" - Stephen King

A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada desert. And the US government will stop at nothing to keep it classified. But now a shadowy group of ex-employees want the world to know - however terrifying the disclosure might prove to be. And when a single volume missing from the original collection mysteriously surfaces at a London auction house, they persuade former FBI agent Will Piper to help them obtain it and unlock the ultimate secret of the library, once and for all. Travelling to England, Will discovers the text contains a sonnet that holds a series of clues - clues that reveal the book has had a profound effect on the history of mankind. But all the time he is being watched. And as he gets nearer to the final revelation, he and his young family become a direct target for a deadly group of men whose duty it is to guard the library's secret - whatever it takes. However, the truth is too powerful to keep hidden...

The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed...A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died - a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted, uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery, but which has now been unearthed - with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives - and as Will closes in on the truth, they are determined to stop him, at any cost...

The new thriller from Dean Koontz is a novel of stunning suspense and visceral terror as doomsday dawns. On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain. It has haunted their dreams through the night, and now they find an eerily luminous and silver downpour that drenches their small Californian mountain town. As hours pass they hear news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. An obscuring fog turns once familiar streets into a ghostly labyrinth. By evening, the town has lost all communication with the outside world. First TV and radio go dead, then the Internet and phone lines. The young couple gathers together with some neighbours, sensing a threat they cannot identify or even imagine. The night brings strange noises, and mysterious lights drift among the trees. The rain diminishes with the dawn but a moody grey-purple twilight prevails. Within the misty gloom the small band will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to the world -- something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency. Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in its perspective, The Taking is a story of a strangely changed and changing world as apocalypse comes to Main Street.

This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with many psi powers, including the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1978, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. Beyond that, The World According to Garp virtually defies synopsis. ----"Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it," said critic Terrence Des Pres. "Irving's blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . Friendship, marriage and family are his primary themes, but at that blundering level of life where mishap and folly--something close to joyful malice--perpetually intrude and disrupt, often fatally. Life, in Irving's fiction, is always under siege." Time magazine commented: "Irving's popularity is not hard to understand. His world is really the world according to nearly everyone." ----This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the author. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editons of impor-tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoringas its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune. Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he's still got his job, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and of course he's got his main squeeze, Brett Sawyer. Things hit a new low, however, when Brett's daughter, Tillie, who has been walking on the wrong side of the law suddenly stands in need of a rescue. It's won't be easy—it never is—but nothing is going to stop Hap and Leonard as they hit the road destined for Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma to shake things up. And with Hap and Leonard at the wheel this promises to be a wild ride.

Control was the word Dr Toby Harper lived by. She strove to keep her life in order, her ER in order. But no one could have been prepared for the man she admits one quiet night to the Springer Hospital. Delirious and in critical condition, he barely responds to treatment. And then he disappears without trace. The subsequent search leads Toby to a second patient with the same infection. And it reveals an unsettling twist - the infection can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. Soon Toby's on a trail that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to an unexpected tragedy in her own home. Only then does she discover the unthinkable: a terrifying and deadly epidemic is about to be unleashed.

Dr Abby DiMatteo - a second-year surgical student in Boston Bayside's elite cardiac team - is about to make a decision that will jeopardize her career. A car-crash victim's healthy heart is ready to be harvested, having been cross-matched to a private patient, forty-six year-old Nina Voss. Instead Abby makes sure the transplant goes to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match. The repercussions leave her plagued with self-doubt. Suddenly a new heart appears, and the transplant is completed - but Abby makes a terrible discovery. The new heart has not come through the right channels. Defying the hospital's demands for silence, Abby begins her own investigation that reveals an intricate and murderous chain of deceptions.

【得獎項目】 入圍愛倫坡獎最佳小說項目 入圍匕首獎、安東尼獎、巴瑞獎、麥卡維帝獎等之最佳小說項目 每月一書國際推薦書目 Book Sense 推薦書目（2005年九月） Book Sense夏季平裝書推薦書目（2006年） 最佳新人獎 — 南佛羅里達太陽報 2005年最佳作品之一 — 明尼阿波里斯明星論壇報 2005年十大推理小說之一 — 河濱雜誌 （Strand Magazine） 在這悖德的世界，不要相信你眼前的一切…… 當被害者比加害者更不可信， 事實的真相，只存於正義之心。 強納森．史崔德警長正在偵辦一起似曾相識的棘手案件。在明尼蘇達州的杜魯司市，一年之內便先後有兩名年輕貌美的女孩失蹤。先前失蹤的是活潑可愛的十六歲甜姐兒，凱莉．馬格拉斯；這次失蹤的則是蕾雪兒．迪斯。 媒體要求警方找出一名連續殺人犯，然而當史崔德深入了解蕾雪兒扭曲的成長環境，他卻開始覺得蕾雪兒的失蹤隱藏著更複雜也更邪惡的祕密。 史崔德的搜查行動從冰天雪地的北方森林延展到熱情浪漫的沙漠城市——拉斯維加斯。在揭露真相的過程中，史崔德的人生也起了巨大的改變。 蕾雪兒，一個聰明卻邪惡、美麗卻放蕩的少女。 她的失蹤案彷如蘇必略湖旁的迷霧，讓人越探索越看不清。 真相令人毛骨悚然，而且悖德。

理察．麥特森（Richard Matheson） 1926出生於紐澤西，於1951年後遷居並工作於加州至今。 理察‧麥特森的作品啟發了當代許多知名作家。雷．布萊伯利尊他為二十世紀最重要的作家之一，史蒂芬‧金更公開表示：『我認為影響我寫作最深，啟發我成為一個作家的人，是理察．麥特森。』，狄恩‧昆茲亦盛讚：『文壇因有了理察．麥特森而變得更多采多姿。』 理察．麥特森的文學才華遍及懸疑、科幻、恐怖、奇幻及西部體裁等領域，作品等身的他，同時也是電影及電視劇本方面的多產作家。曾經締造了許多影史上的傳奇：一九八○年〈似曾相識〉的浪漫悽美（電影「超人」男主角好萊塢明星克里斯多夫李維主演），一九九八年〈美夢成真〉的深情動人（羅賓威廉斯主演）、影集〈陰陽魔界〉、The Shrinking Man……大導演史蒂芬‧史匹柏初試啼聲的電視電影長片《飛輪喋血》（Duel，1971），也是出自於麥特森的原著短篇和劇本。二○○七年《我是傳奇》更是第三度改編為電影，由威爾‧史密斯擔綱主演，堪稱麥特森畢生的巔峰代表作。 在橫跨五十年的文壇生涯中，理察‧麥特森獲獎無數，其中包括世界奇幻文學年會頒發終生成就獎、布蘭姆．史托克終生成就獎、雨果獎、愛倫坡獎、金羽毛獎以及作家協會獎……等。 陳宗琛 曾任Huthwaite商業顧問集團研究員，現專事文學翻譯。 一個每天早上起床第一件事就先去找好吃的東西的台南人。比吃更快樂的兩件事，一是在埋沒的古書堆裡挖出令人廢寢忘食的好看小說，一是用中文探索一種敘事的韻律。曾獲十三屆梁實秋文學獎譯詩獎。譯有《時間迴旋》、《神鬼認證》等作品。

In this thrillingly effective follow-up to Harris's masterful 1981 suspense novel Red Dragon, the heroine is new, but the villain isn't: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the evil genius who played a small but crucial role in the earlier novel, returns, to mesmerizing effect. When a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill (he kidnaps, slays and skins young women) begins a crosscountry rampage, FBI trainee Clarice Starling tries to interview Lecter, a psychiatrist whose brilliant insights into the criminally insane are matched only by his bloodlusthe's currently imprisoned for nine murders, and would like nothing more than the chance to kill again. Lecter, a vicious gamesman, will offer clues to the murderer's pattern only in exchange for information about Clarice, analyzing her with horrible accuracy from the barest details. When Bill strikes again, the agent begins to realize that Lecter may know much more, and races against time and two twisted minds. Harris understands the crafting of literary terror as very few writers do; readers who put themselves in his good, coldblooded hands will lose sleep, and demand a sequel. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

死亡是我的领域。我以它为生。我靠它铸就我在这一行的名声。我始终认为，跟死亡打交道的诀窍，就是跟它保持一定的距离。这是一条铁律。别让它的气息吹上你的脸庞。 “令人血脉喷张。”——《今日美国》 “一本令人无法抗拒的惊悚小说。”——《纽约时报》 迈克尔·康奈利连年蝉联《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首，被GQ杂志评为“举世最杰出的推理小说家”。 约翰·麦克沃伊是一名记者，他的双胞胎哥哥肖恩则是一名侦办凶杀案的警察。在查办一桩残忍的断头案时，肖恩突然死亡。人人都以为他是因为压力过大，以致崩溃。只有约翰不接受这个结论，他决定单枪匹马调查这个事情。

◎紐約時報排行榜最暢銷懸疑小說‧系列作品全球銷量超過1000萬冊 慾望點燃索命之火 惡魔的復仇已經展開 他的眼睛已成焦炭，永遠閉不上，嘴也燒焦，定成一個尖叫的形狀。熟睡的人手肘不會舉過床頭，身體不會像塊燒過的木頭。艾格妮絲小時候在哥倫比亞見過不少死人，沒有一個死得比傑瑞米更慘。她可以肯定，他確確實實是死了。 她聽見有人說話，然後發現那是自己喃喃唸經的聲音。她無法移動腳步離開，也無法移開目光不看，只能在胸前畫十字，緊握唸珠。床前地板上有個焦痕，艾格妮絲認得那個記號。 就在那一刻，她明白傑瑞米葛羅福發生什麼事了。 最離奇的密室殺人事件！嫌犯竟是死者召喚來的惡魔？ 一棟密閉的豪宅裡，聲名狼藉的藝評人慘死在臥房中，全身像是被來自體內的熊熊烈火給燒得體無完膚，臥房裡留下濃濃的硫磺味，地板上還有一道疑似惡魔的偶蹄焦印。 負責偵辦此案的達戈斯塔警探和FBI探員潘德嘉，從前一晚參加在豪宅舉辦的派對的友人調查起，結果每個人都辯稱與死者不熟或交惡？沒想到死者生前致電過的人，也陸續被硫磺之火燒死在密室中！ 究竟他們犯下了什麼罪行，才會以這種方式慘遭殺害？或者，真的是惡魔前來復仇了呢？ 書中人物介紹： 潘德嘉－冷靜睿智的FBI探員，如福爾摩斯般學識豐富，舉止如貓一般敏捷優雅，有貴族氣息，並擅長易容術，經常神出鬼沒。 達戈斯塔－槍法神準的紐約警察，曾經一度辭職改行當推理小說家，後來發現自己仍舊熱愛辦案，捍衛正義的個性深深獲得潘德嘉的信賴。 普萊斯頓和柴爾德這對寫作搭檔出道至今不過十一年，卻已經合作完成十部作品，並且各自單飛推出獨立創作。他們的產量穩定、讀者評價極高，在亞瑪遜網路書店上的銷售非常穩定（平裝版長期穩居1000－3000名），尤其在題材上獨樹一幟：普萊斯頓的自然科學背景使他不論寫演化、生物科技、基因工程或病理學都從容自若，柴爾德則是恐怖小說編輯出身，外加自學程式設計，擅長營造驚悚氣氛，懂得何時添加血腥場面，何時攻心為上用氣氛嚇死讀者，也對電腦科技的描寫瞭若指掌。 他們最大的特色就是把看似有超自然力量介入的恐怖兇案與創意獨具的科學理論做出連結，再加上都市傳奇、失落寶藏傳說等冒險小說要素，融合了麥可克萊頓（Michael Crichton）的科技驚悚、克萊夫庫斯勒（Clive Cussler）的動作冒險，還有當代推理文學中最迷人的福爾摩斯式主角：潘德嘉探員。 簡而言之，這是台灣讀者尚未發掘的「新種驚悚小說」，有足夠的知識性：演化理論生物學、基因工程、人類學神話、都市傳奇，有恐怖的連續兇殺案，精彩的推理解謎過程，極具魅力的主角（潘德嘉探員有如福爾摩斯一般天縱英才、優雅而具貴族氣息；達科斯塔警長則比較有「本土味」，草根性重，為人直爽粗獷；賭性堅強的小報記者斯密貝克），深具神秘氣息的故事舞台（義大利的荒廢古堡和墓地、繁華富裕的紐約大都會）、若有似無的超自然元素、天衣無縫的科學解釋、還有更重要的：刺激緊湊的故事，流暢平順的文字、討人喜歡的主角、恰如其份的幽默感（但絕不廉價）。 在客觀的銷售數據上，兩人合作的處女作《聖物》登上紐約時報排行榜冠軍，全美銷售超過一百萬冊，賣出十二國版權，被派拉蒙拍成電影，之後《聖盒》和《龍山》也各有五十萬冊以上的佳績。在這之後，兩人換了經紀人，改由華納集團出版，更將他們一步步帶往暢銷頂峰。 2004年起，他們陸續發表《硫磺密殺》、《死亡之舞》和《死者之書》三部曲，重新將故事舞台帶回紐約和自然史博物館，讓潘德嘉探員和達科斯塔警長再度聯手探案，用目眩神迷的藝術界陰謀、魔鬼殺人徵相、非洲面具特展為背景，描寫潘德嘉和他邪惡犯罪天才胞弟狄奧金的驚天動地大對決。《死者之書》是三部曲完結篇，甫於今年六月上市，創造紐約時報排行榜第三名，同時登上十大暢銷榜，亞瑪遜網路書店不分類書籍總排行的空前佳績。他們的作品全球銷量估計超過一千萬冊。 「沒有人可以寫出更精采的作品，讓你讀到半夜兩點還不想上床睡覺。」 ──Nelson DeMille , author of Night Fall（暢銷懸疑小說《夜幕降落》作者） 「如此驚悚又如此有趣，沒讀完前無法放下書本。」 ──《自由蘭斯星報》（Freelance Star） 「打從心底感到毛骨悚然的詭計。」 ──《聖荷西水星報》（San Jose Mercury News，加州矽谷最具影響力的媒體） 「這兩位作者帶來非比尋常的閱讀趣味，高潮迭起的緊湊情節，衝擊人心的絕妙發展，是一套值得推薦的系列小說作品，千萬別錯過。」 ──《克科斯書評》（Kirkus Reviews） 「激烈的動作場面、超乎想像的破案過程，誘惑你進入最深沉的罪惡之境。沒有人可以比他們兩位，把超自然和科技題材結合得更完美。也許這套作品會是他們最經典的代表作。」 ──《佛林特日報》（Flint Journal） 「我愛過它，現在它是你的了。我不想給你任何線索，我曾經經歷的喜悅、恐懼、憤怒、同情、期待和慌張，都在故事裡面。你，將用你自己的方式去理解它。」 ──知名譯者／王欣欣

Maura Isles deals with death. As a pathologist in downtown Boston, she has seen more than her share of corpses. But never before has the body on the medical examiner's table been her own. There can be no denying the evidence though. The dead woman is her mirror image right down to the most intimate physical details. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. Then a DNA test confirms that Maura's mysterious double is indeed her twin sister, and suddenly an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark and deadly secrets ...