Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
令人心跳加速的密室悬疑，心理惊悚佳作
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内容简介 · · · · · ·
这是一部融合女性主义元素的心理惊悚佳作。一位母亲在暴风雪中独自照顾孩子时，耳边传来了可疑的声音。那是一个入侵者！没有电话求助，没有武器自卫，她必须迅速作出决定，誓死守护自己和家人的安全。
“Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense.” —Elle
“Nightwatching is like nothing I’ve read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings; it’s amazing.”—Lisa Jewell
A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything.
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.
She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.
In the suffocating darkness, the mother struggles to remain calm, to plan. Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she’d feared, because she knows exactly who he is—and what he wants.
“令人心跳加速的密室悬疑。” —Elle “
《夜巡》与我以前读过的任何书都不一样。我分两次狼吞虎咽地吃完。太棒了。”——丽莎·朱厄尔
楼梯上有脚步声。一秒钟才反应过来。接下来发生的事情将决定一切。
暴风雪期间，一位母亲带着年幼的孩子独自在家，半夜把儿子掖回床上。她听到有声音——老房子总是发出某种声音。但这声音令人不安地熟悉：这是上楼梯的脚步声，异常沉重且缓慢。
她看到一个男人的身影出现在走廊的尽头，笼罩在阴影中。她吓坏了，悄悄叫醒孩子们，把他们赶到房子最古老的部分，一个隐藏在墙后的小秘密房间。当男人寻找他们时，他们躲在那里，试图用承诺引诱孩子们出去，并吓唬母亲投降。
在令人窒息的黑暗中，母亲努力保持冷静，制定计划。她应该寻找武器还是尝试逃跑？但随后她又瞥见了他。那张脸。那个声音。她立刻知道自己的处境比她担心的还要可怕，因为她确切地知道他是谁——以及他想要什么。
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home complete with its own secret room. When not writing, she spends time with her husband and two children. Nightwatching is her debut novel.
特雷西·塞拉在科罗拉多山区出生和长大。她是一名律师，目前住在新英格兰一栋殖民时代的古色古香的房子里，里面有自己的秘密房间。不写作时，她会花时间陪伴丈夫和两个孩子。《夜巡》是她的处女作。
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