Goodnight Nobody 晚安无人
Author: Weiner Jennifer Pages: 352 |Book description| New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s newest novel tells the story of a young mother’s move to a postcard-perfect Connecticut town and the secrets she uncovers there. For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia’s been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her days are spent carpooling and enduring endless games of Candy Land, and at night, most of her orgasms are of the do-it-yourself variety. When a fellow mother is murdered, Kate finds that the unsolved mystery is one of the most interesting things to happen in Upchurch since her neighbors broke ground for a guesthouse and cracked their septic tank. Even though Kate’s husband and the police chief warn her that crime-fighting’s a job best left to professionals, she can’t let it go. So Kate launches an unofficial investigation — from 8:45 to 11:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school — with the help of her hilarious best friend, carpet heiress Janie Segal, and Evan McKenna, a former flame she thought she’d left behind in New York City. As the search for the killer progresses, Kate is drawn deeper into the murdered woman’s double life. She discovers the secrets and lies behind Upchurch’s placid picket-fence facade — and the choices and compromises all modern women make as they navigate between independence and obligation, small towns and big cities, being a mother and having a life of one’s own. Engrossing, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Goodnight Nobody is another unputdownable, timely tale; an insightful mysterywith a great heart and a narrator you’ll never forget. 畅销全球二十多个国家,掠获数百万读者的都会小说女王——珍妮弗.维纳,继《偷穿高跟鞋》、《小地震》之后,首度跨越领域,挑战嫌疑推理之作! 两个甚少交集的女人;一宗骇人的命案;一段深藏的秘密;一场危险的侦探之旅…… 某些夜晚,我会关掉灯,一动不动地躺在床上,在黑暗中听着外面传来的话语和笑声,心里萌生一个想法:我在等着真正的人生绽放。 位于康乃迪克州的厄普丘奇小镇,是个宁静祥和的郊区。住在这里的女人,个个都像超完美娇妻的化身:外形亮丽、举止优雅、只吃有机食品、拥有一大堆的社交活动,而且面对日复一日不变的生活,脑海中绝对不会有“好无聊”的念头。 但这样的平静,就在凯特发现凯萨琳死在自家厨房后,荡然无存。 透过寻线追查,凯特逐渐发现了隐藏在这宗谋杀案背后的重大秘密,关于凯萨琳私底下过着的第二种人生,以及关于自己一直逃避不去面对的内心里,真实的渴求…… |