The Bone Garden

完美融合醫學、歷史及犯罪，
泰絲．格里森繼《貝納德的墮落》挑戰自我全新獨立作！

　　．《史蒂芬．金談寫作》書單推薦作家，其著作為史蒂芬．金藏書必備
　　．作品已譯成三十三國語言，全球銷量高達一千五百萬冊
　　．《出版人週刊》盛讚「醫學懸疑天后」

　　在那座以鮮血灌溉的花園裡，長眠著完整真相的最後一塊拼圖……

　　波士頓  現在
　　剛與前夫分手的茱麗亞在波士頓近郊買下一棟古屋，當她決定竭盡心力打造出夢想中的美麗花園時，她手中的鐵鏟卻挖出了一起可怕的秘密──在她的花園下方，有具屍骨。

　　波士頓  一八三○年
　　窮困但優秀的醫學院學生諾里斯．馬歇爾，被指控為以殘忍手法連續屠殺數人的「西城死神」。諾里斯為了證明自己的清白，他四處奔走，想要找到在第一起凶案發生時的目擊者：一名愛爾蘭姑娘羅絲．康納利。當諾里斯費盡千辛萬苦找到羅絲之時，卻發現「西城死神」的受害者均於諾里斯就讀之醫學院任職，更令人意外的是，受害者們也都與羅絲死去的姊姊有所關連……

　　波士頓  現在
　　法醫很快證實花園中的死者在此地已被埋超過百年，然而，一通來自前屋主親戚，亨利．佩吉老先生的電話，卻引起了茱麗亞強烈的好奇心。亨利．佩吉從前任屋主處接手老屋裡多達數十箱的珍貴文件，其中包含了數封十九世紀末的信件，而這些信件中記載著百年前在波士頓引起轟動的「西城死神」連續殺人案。茱麗亞為此案深深著迷，同時她也意識到，自己似乎和這座花園，有著難以言喻的緣份……

　　一棟年久失修的古宅、一座荒蕪寬廣的花園、一具身份不明的女屍，意外引出百年前連環兇案的最終真相！

　　Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.

　　Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . .

　　Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect.

　　To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city–from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power–on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected . . . and who waits for his next lethal opportunity.

　　With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, The Bone Garden deftly interweaves the thrilling narratives of its nineteenth- and twenty-first century protagonists, tracing the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking. Bold, bloody, and brilliant, this is Tess Gerritsen’s finest achievement to date.

　　★本書中譯版《骸骨花園》由春天出版社出版。

作者簡介

【醫學驚悚天后】泰絲．格里森Tess Gerritsen

　　出生於加州聖地牙哥。母親是第一代華人移民，擁有華裔血統的她從小就喜歡窩在電影院看驚悚片，因而培養出她對黑暗主題的興趣，並反映在她後來撰寫的小說中。

　　泰絲畢業於名校史丹佛大學，而後繼續深造，最後取得加州大學舊金山分校醫學博士學位，於夏威夷檀香山展開她繁忙的內科醫師生涯。熱愛寫作的她，結婚生子後為了照顧兩個幼兒減少工作量，並開始嘗試寫作。

　　一九九五年對泰絲的寫作生涯是重要的轉捩點，在經紀人的鼓勵下，泰絲把自身的醫學背景寫進小說中，結果隔年出版的《貝納德的墮落》（Harvest）大受歡迎，讓「泰絲．格里森」這個名字首度躍居《紐約時報》暢銷排行榜。從此她專攻結合醫學和犯罪的醫學驚悚小說，迄今又出了十餘本書，本本暢銷，更創作出波士頓法醫莫拉．艾爾思和女警探珍．瑞卓利聯手辦案的系列小說。

　　Tess Gerritsen is a physician and an internationally bestselling author. She gained nationwide acclaim for her first novel of medical suspense, the New York Times bestseller Harvest. She is also the author of the bestsellers The Mephisto Club, Vanish, Body Double, The Sinner, The Apprentice, The Surgeon, Life Support, Bloodstream, and Gravity. Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine. Visit her website at www.tessgerritsen.com.