金石堂《神秘森林》作者Tana French融推理與心理戰於一爐的驚悚力作
在都柏林外破敗的港村裡，發生了一件滅門血案，父親與兩個孩子喪生，唯獨母親倖存。明星警探Scorcher Kennedy與菜鳥夥伴Richie原本認定這是大環境不景氣下的尋常案例，父親因為經濟壓力而先將妻小了結，最後自戕。然而其中仍有太多細節啟人疑竇，逼得他們必須繼續追查下去。
整件案子經過媒體披露後，Scorcher的姊姊情緒失控，打亂了Scorcher的生活節奏。而原本埋藏在記憶深處，幼時家人們在這港村裡所發生的黑暗往事，此刻又全部浮現在Scorcher腦海，傷痛歷歷在目。
在如此切身的情感羈絆下，Scorcher還能保持一貫的冷靜客觀，順利緝兇歸案嗎？(文/博客來編譯)
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once.
Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk . . .
