Murder List

Murder List
意外的殺機
書封作者名: 茱麗‧嘉伍德

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Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 1, 2005)

Hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison is flirting with danger. She agrees to help a journalist friend expose Dr. Lawrence Shields, a shady self-help guru who may have been responsible for the death of one of his vulnerable devotees. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar, where the doctor has his guests make a list of the people who have hurt or angered them over the years and asks: Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist? Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along.

The experience is all but forgotten--until the first person on Regan's list turns up dead.Shock turns to horror when another name from her list surfaces as a corpse. While brutal murders seem to stalk Regan's every move, her attraction to the detective assigned to protect her grows. As the menace intensifics and a serial killer circles, Regan must discover who has turned her private revenge fantasies into grisly reality.

Product Description
There are few authors who can weave nail-biting thrills, edge-of-your-seat drama, and romantic suspense as masterfully as Julie Garwood. Now she ratchets up the tension with Murder List, in which evil is on the hunt– and proves to be methodically organized and chillingly successful.

When Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, it is the perfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in his brothers』 footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. But first he must complete one last assignment (and one that he is not too happy about): acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled in some potentially deadly business. Someone has e-mailed her a graphic crime-scene photo–and the victim is no stranger.

Regan suspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help a journalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys on lonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr. Lawrence Shields may be responsible for the death of one of his devotees, which was ruled a suicide. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar.

At the gathering, the doctor persuades his guests to partake in an innocent little 「cleansing」 exercise. He asks them to make a list of the people who have hurt or deceived them over the years, posing the question: Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist? Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along. After ten minutes, Shields instructs the participants to bring their sheets of paper to the fireplace and throw them into the flames. But Regan misses this part of the program when she exits the room to take a call–and barely escapes a menacing individual in the parking lot.

The experience is all but forgotten–until the first person on Regan』s list turns up dead. Shock turns to horror when other bodies from the list start to surface, as a harrowing tango of desire and death is set into motion. Now brutal murders seem to stalk her every move–and a growing attraction to Alec may compromise her safety, while stirring up tender emotions she thought she could no longer feel. Yet as the danger intensifies and a serial killer circles ever closer, Regan must discover who has turned her private revenge fantasies into grisly reality.

其他版本

果樹-Romance Age
2006-09-27

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4
我的評比:4葉

這本是茱麗的現代的布家系列,說的是Alec的故事~~

就和他的兄弟一樣,Alec也是致力於打擊犯罪,不過他是在芝加哥的警局工作,並且正考慮變換跑道,回到老家波士頓。而他離開芝加哥的最後一份工作,就是擔任連鎖旅館的女繼承人Regan保鑣。

Regan和她的兩個好友一同參加了自我成長的課程,並且寫下了一份謀殺名單─如果名單上的人消失的話,我的世界會變得更美好...
原本只是個玩笑,但是在一個意外的情況下,Regan遺失了她的名單,而有人照著Regan的名單開始殺人...然後就是追查兇手的過程囉~~

茱麗的現代系列的評價一向沒有她的古代系列好,這本的評價似乎又更低了一些!
首先我自己覺得本書的出場人物太多了一些,除了布家本身就七八個兄弟姊妹(還要再加上諾亞呢~~),Regan自己家族也不小,她有三個哥哥+兩個好朋友,感覺又是一大串粽子的故事...
尤其在本書中,Regan的哥哥們&朋友實在是太搶戲了,導致男女主角沒什麼時間談戀愛說~~
也許是之前看了許多琳達的書,在這本Murder List中,男女主角太過含蓄...到了第35章都還沒啵下去,讓我充滿烏鴉飛滿天的感覺...

不過,茱麗的書還是有她一定的水準,用字遣詞上仍是感受得到她的幽默趣味~~
與她之前的書相比,的確是沒有那麼出色,但是仍是本不錯的小說囉~~給予4片葉子囉

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