基本信息出版社：Picador
页码：368 页
出版日期：2007年10月
ISBN：0312427557
International Standard Book Number：0312427557
条形码：9780312427559
EAN：9780312427559
版本：1st
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award

Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the bathtub, apparently of suicide. The old woman has taken barbiturates, slit her wrists, and bound her head in a rusted contraption called a scold's bridle, a cage with tongue clamps used to torture women in the Middle Ages. The police start to suspect homicide right around the time they learn that Sarah has been generously included in the dead woman's will. When she becomes the prime suspect in the murder, it's up to Sarah to delve into the bizarre details of Mathilda's private life, a history of greed, abuse, and depravity, and uncover the real killer.

作者简介

Minette Walters is the author of fourteen suspense novels and the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award, among others. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives with her husband in Dorset, England.

媒体推荐 "Minette Walters knows the cruel kinkiness that can lurk behind the most sedate of facades."--Los Angeles Times

"Thoroughly chilling . . . gripping . . . disturbing."--Orlando Sentinel

"Walters fearlessly flirts with gothic menace and intricacy as she draws all the loose threads together in this full-bodied plot."--The Washington Post "A wonderful, thought-provoking mystery by a brilliant new British writer."--The San Diego Union-Tribune "Fans of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell will respond to Minette Walters's deft touch and psychological suspense and appreciate her ability to depict complex and sympathetic women characters."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune