基本信息出版社：Hyperion
页码：336 页
出版日期：2004年02月
ISBN：1401300189
International Standard Book Number：1401300189
条形码：9781401300180
EAN：9781401300180
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

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shley Stassler is not your average artist. He has been wildly praised for a series of bronze sculptures that group families together, depicting them in moments of excruciating physical and emotional pain-but the art world has no clue as to how he creates such authentic, gruesome, seemingly tortured human representations. He assigns each family a number, and now he's up to number nine. What's in store for family #9? Cruelty and savagery that you can't even imagine... The Bone Parade introduces a villain who is as methodical, calculating, and detached as any found in the best fiction. It's gripping. It's chilling. You might be too afraid to read on, but you'll never be able to tear your eyes away.
作者简介 Mark Nykanen won four Emmys and an Edgar Award in his last four years at NBC News, where he worked as an on-camera investigative reporter. He served as press secretary for Jerry Brown when the California governor campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. Nykanen has been an award winning radio news director and talk show host at KDKB Radio in Phoenix, as well as a public television reporter and news anchor in Arizona. The Bone Parade is his second novel. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
媒体推荐 "...irresistible suspense thriller." Ashley Stassler's "...chokehold tale is told from his own crazed mind. Pages bronzed with horror." -- Kirkus starred review

"Parade goes down easy. Real easy." -- Entertainment Weekly

"A longtime television investigative reporter . . . continues his impressive transition to thriller writer with a harrowing serial killer tale . . ." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Artful and well written, the complex, macabre tale The Bone Parade, will leave the reader frozen in his chair." -- Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author

"The creepiest page turner since The Silence of the Lambs . . . Smart and scary!" -- US Weekly

"This novel has so many twists even the most jaded readers will stick with it . . . descriptions are vivid and emotional." -- The Toronto Globe and Mail

"You won't be able to stop reading . . . Nykanen speaks directly to the reader . . . He'll scare the life out of you." -- Salem Statesman Journal
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

An award-winning former investigative journalist, Nykanen (Hush) falters in his second novel, a gruesome chiller that's an amalgamation of Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Ashley Stassler is a world-famous sculptor who abducts and kills entire families (cue the Red Dragon) in order to make the ultimate "art" from their dying flesh (remember Buffalo Bill?), and his ego is even bigger than his reputation ("I expect I'll not only be forgiven but I'll be more sought after than ever before. There'll be rock bands named Stassler, and my sculpture will sell for several times its original price"). Nykanen's spin on these Thomas Harris tropes gives the killer his own first-person POV and one of his latest victims a particularly disturbing case of Stockholm syndrome ("I clamp my hand over her mouth.... And then-I don't believe it-she slips her tongue against my fingers. What a wench.... I love her"). In a lackluster subplot, a junior art professor named Lauren Reed learns that her most promising student has gone missing during an internship at Stassler's Utah ranch. The connection is a hunky reporter named Ry Chambers, who interviews Lauren as well as Stassler. Nykanen loads up his tale with plenty of voyeuristic sadism on Stassler's end, while the predictable trysting between Lauren and Ry is all gushy romance ("her mouth opened as readily as leaves in the desert to an early morning mist"). Fans of Harris and other dark thriller writers may eat this one up, but no amount of good details or spine-tingling descriptions can replace original plotting and characters.
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文摘 "They moved here from Pennsylvania. Harrisburg to be precise. Public records are extraordinarily revealing. I always use them. I simply don't want a family that's moved from one side of town to the other or from two streets over. Better they've made a big move, far from those who know them or might miss them in an hour, and evening, or on the day that follows. Give me a day and I'm gone for good. And so are they. . . ."