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內容簡介 曼布克獎初選入圍！ 在某個悶熱的夏日，傑克一家住在破損的汽車中，生活環境非常糟糕，傑克的媽媽終於下定決心離開車子去尋找救援，離開前她對傑克說「現在一切都由你做主」。 傑克聽進去了，和兩個妹妹一起躲在車子裡等待媽媽回來，但是媽媽卻再也沒有出現過，一家人的生活被徹底改變。 三年過去，傑克現在十五歲，一切依舊由他做主，只是現在他們住在一棟房子裡，他照顧著妹妹的起居，確保任何人都不會發現他們孤零零的住在那棟房子裡。 一切原本都照傑克的計畫，但接續而來的事件，卻讓傑克突然間走向母親失蹤的真相，他就快要發現那個讓母親失蹤的兇手究竟是誰…… 英國小說家貝琳達．鮑兒的第一本長篇小說《親愛的兇手先生》，出版後獲得該年英國犯罪小說作家協會年度最佳長篇小說的金匕首獎，後續的作品也都大受好評，本書更是受到各界盛讚，並且入圍2018年曼布克獎初選名單。 Normal 0 0 2 false false false EN-US ZH-TW X-NONE * Style Definitions * table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:表格內文; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;} THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMIDSNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . .On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long.But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever.Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. . .'Snap is the best kind of crime novel. It gives you chills, it makes you think and it touches your heart. I loved it!' SARAH PINBOROUGH, No.1 bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . . . a cracking read.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You Go'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' C. L. TAYLOR, bestselling author of The Missing'Intelligent entertainment that keeps you guessing.' Sunday Times Crime Club'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.' Sunday Mirror'Belinda Bauer's plots are never anything less than original and unsettling, and Snap is no exception.' Sunday Times'Spine-chilling, tension-packed gripper.' Woman and Home'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . . . razor-sharp observation.' Guardian'Belinda Bauer's fiction teems with life . . . Kate Atkinson used to be the undisputed master of this sort of mixture of the serious, the exciting and the anarchic, but Bauer is now firmly in her class.' Daily Telegraph
