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.
暢銷全球二十多個國家,掠獲數(shù)百萬讀者的都會小說女王——珍妮弗.維納,繼《偷穿高跟鞋》、《小地震》之后,首度跨越領(lǐng)域,挑戰(zhàn)嫌疑推理之作!
兩個甚少交集的女人;一宗駭人的命案;一段深藏的秘密;一場危險的偵探之旅……
某些夜晚,我會關(guān)掉燈,一動不動地躺在床上,在黑暗中聽著外面?zhèn)鱽淼脑捳Z和笑聲,心里萌生一個想法:我在等著真正的人生綻放。
位于康乃迪克州的厄普丘奇小鎮(zhèn),是個寧靜祥和的郊區(qū)。住在這里的女人,個個都像超完美嬌妻的化身:外形亮麗、舉止優(yōu)雅、只吃有機食品、擁有一大堆的社交活動,而且面對日復一日不變的生活,腦海中絕對不會有“好無聊”的念頭。
但這樣的平靜,就在凱特發(fā)現(xiàn)凱薩琳死在自家廚房后,蕩然無存。
透過尋線追查,凱特逐漸發(fā)現(xiàn)了隱藏在這宗謀殺案背后的重大秘密,關(guān)于凱薩琳私底下過著的第二種人生,以及關(guān)于自己一直逃避不去面對的內(nèi)心里,真實的渴求……
About Author
Jennifer Weiner,1970年出生于路易安那州,畢業(yè)于普林斯頓大學。目前專職于寫作,與丈夫亞當、女兒露西及愛犬維多住在費城,著作有長篇小說《欲望單人床》,《偷穿高跟鞋》、《小地震》、《晚安,無名小卒》等?,F(xiàn)今偶爾仍能見到她在報紙上的評論,她的作品也常見于各大暢銷雜志與網(wǎng)站。著作遍及英、日、韓、德、意、荷、臺灣等二十多國,以一貫幽默細膩的筆風,不著痕跡地輕碰人心最深處的傷痛,并予以溫柔縫合。
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