改編電影由奧斯卡最佳女配角得主、《古墓奇兵》艾莉西亞薇坎德領銜主演!
「如果Lily沒有認識我,或許現在她就不會死了。」Lucy Fly這樣說著。
「今天一早,就在我被逮捕的幾個小時前,一場地震震醒了我。我提起這件事並不是刻意要把兩個警察出現帶走我的這件事,譬喻成我人生的斷層什麼的,只是因為在東京,幾乎每個月都會出現像這樣的地震,我純粹就是為了整理清楚事件發生的順序。畢竟這是很不尋常的一天,而我不想忘記任何一件事??」
為了逃離那段在約克郡的痛苦人生,Lucy十年前毅然決然地隻身一人來到這滿懷東方風情、熙熙攘攘的東京都市生活,並在此認識了一個神秘而充滿魅力的攝影師Teiji,而墜入愛河。某天,她遇到了與一樣來自約克郡的女孩-Lily。雖然同樣的出生背景讓Lucy聯想到過往不愉快地回憶而抗拒,但仍同意了帶這位新來乍到的女孩認識東京。隨著兩人見面次數越見頻繁,Lucy發現Lily的存在,不僅入侵了她的生活,也入侵了她與Teiji之間的關係??
這天,報紙斗大標題寫著:「一名女性屍體於東京灣被發現,身份疑為英國籍酒保Lily Bridges」警方將嫌疑人直指閨蜜Lucy,巧合地,Lucy的親密男性友人Teiji,也在同一此刻下落不明。而被帶回偵訊室的Lucy,地陳述起一段關於她自己,混沌而不得見光的過去,揭露出深埋心底的危險秘密??
這本Susanna Jones出道處女作,為她奪下多項英國文學大獎,包括英國犯罪作家協會克雷西匕首獎,並已授權21國語言出版。《觀察家報》:「Susanna Jones維持著隱約的顫慄感貫串整部作品,懸疑程度直達芮氏規模10.0!引人入勝而難以忘懷,這部精心而成的處女作,令讀者心中的悸動在翻完最後一頁後,仍久久不散。」(文/博客來編譯)
Now a major Netflix film starring Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough, a haunting psychological thriller set in Tokyo probing deep into the mind of a murder suspect
The grisly headline leaves nothing to the imagination: "Woman''s torso recovered from Tokyo Bay. Believed to be missing British bartender Lily Bridges." The only suspect is Lucy Fly. Her friend is dead, her lover has disappeared, and as far as anyone is concerned, she''s as good as guilty. Trapped in the interrogation room, Lucy begins to unravel two stories. One, for the police, is a spare outline, offering more questions than answers. The other--the real one, if you believe her--is a gripping dive into an obsessive mind, revealing the checkered past that brought her to Japan, her complicated friendship with Lily, and a tempestuous affair with a missing Japanese photographer named Teiji. As she excavates the dangerous secrets--both past and present--that haunt her waking mind, Lucy relates an unsettling life story that spans bustling Tokyo, the British countryside, and remote Japanese islands, each step taking us closer to the chilling truth about Lily''s death. An all-consuming crime story like no other, Susanna Jones''s mesmerizing debut novel is a neo-noir thriller as shocking as it is exquisitely composed. "Novels of psychological suspense hang on the delicacy of the writer''s touch--that feathery brushstroke that darkens a mood, heightens an action and brings a revealing word to a character''s lips--and Susanna Jones has the touch."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times