Suburban Dicks

　　超級英雄《死侍》的共同作者法比安．尼謝薩(Fabian Nicieza)，首次帶來幽默刺激的偵探小說！
 
　　安德蕾雅(Andrea Stern)是四個孩子的媽，即將迎來第五個孩子。為此她不得不放棄FBI側寫員的工作，放棄年少的夢想轉向一般警務，成天處理街坊的小爭執。一天，正為孩子們奔走，忙得焦頭爛額的她，來到紐澤西的加油站借廁所，卻無意間撞見一場加油站員工謀殺案。孕婦出征，既然遇上，拚了命也要找出真相。
 
　　同時惡名昭彰的小報記者坎尼斯(Kenneth Lee)，打算暗中調查這起案件，希望藉此挽救自己的職業生涯，畢竟純樸的小鎮紐澤西的西溫莎(West Windsor)小鎮，超過三十年無犯罪新聞可報。居民一派合諧安樂，安居於此。
 
　　兩人攜手調查，卻意外發現小鎮不為人知的故事，結構性的排他與無意識的歧視問題悄然浮上檯面，是陰謀還是人性的黑暗，在這風光明媚的小鎮上。抽絲剝繭，潛藏十年，不可言說的種族問題，一切都將真相大白。當輿論興起，甚麼也瞞不住。

(文／博客來外文館)

*A finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel*

*A finalist for the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel*

From the cocreator of Deadpool comes a highly entertaining debut featuring two unlikely and unforgettable amateur sleuths. An engrossing murder mystery full of skewering social commentary, Suburban Dicks examines the racial tensions exposed in a New Jersey suburb after the murder of a gas station attendant.

Andie Stern thought she’d solved her final homicide. Once a budding FBI profiler, she gave up her career to raise her four (soon to be five) children in West Windsor, New Jersey. But one day, between soccer games, recitals, and trips to the local pool, a very pregnant Andie pulls into a gas station--and stumbles across a murder scene. An attendant has been killed, and the local cops are in over their heads. Suddenly, Andie is obsessed with the case, and back on the trail of a killer, this time with kids in tow.

She soon crosses paths with disgraced local journalist Kenneth Lee, who also has everything to prove in solving the case. A string of unusual occurrences--and, eventually, body parts--surface around town, and Andie and Kenneth uncover simmering racial tensions and a decades-old conspiracy. Hilarious, insightful, and a killer whodunit, Suburban Dicks is the one-of-a-kind mystery that readers will not be able to stop talking about.

Fabian Nicieza is an Argentine-American comic book writer and editor who is best known for his work on Marvel titles such as X-Men, X-Force, New Warriors, Cable, Deadpool, and Thunderbolts, for all of which he helped create numerous characters. He currently resides in Los Angeles. Suburban Dicks is his debut novel.