看守者之眼

by Hideo Yokoyama, 橫山秀夫, 王蘊潔 (Translator)

即使刑警沒發現，但我看得出來……

夢想成為刑警卻終其一生任職看守所的近藤，在退休前夕，執意追查一起「無屍殺人事件」。那名因證據不足而被釋放的嫌犯，真的清白嗎？看似平凡的看守人生，竟培養出一雙能洞悉真相的眼——「看守者之眼」。

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橫山秀夫以一貫銳利筆鋒，寫出六篇發生在職場日常中的極致懸疑。從監獄看守員、網管警員、報社編輯到縣知事祕書課長，只是想守住工作、維持尊嚴的人們，卻意外被捲入謎團，面臨命運的臨界點。

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Hideo Yokoyama (横山 秀夫) worked as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo for 12 years before striking out on his own as a fiction writer. He made his literary debut in 1998 when his collection of police stories Kage no kisetsu (Season of Shadows) won the Matsumoto Seicho Prize; the volume was also short-listed for the Naoki Prize. In 2000 his story Doki (Motive) was awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Short Stories. His 2002 novel Han'ochi (Half Solved) earned a Konomys No. 1 and gained him a place among Japan's best-selling authors. He repeated his Konomys No. 1 ranking in 2013 with 64 Rokuyon (64), his first novel in seven years. Other prominent works include his 2003 Kuraimazu hai (Climber's High), centering on the crash of JAL Flight 123 that he covered as a reporter in 1985; the World War II novel Deguchi no nai umi (Seas with No Exit, 2004); the police novel Shindo zero (Seismic Intensity Zero, 2005); and the story collection Rinjo (Initial Investigation, 2004).

Source:http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/...

Reviews

[Forrest · Rating 3 out of 5]

我想我應該會把這一本書歸類為極短篇的故事而非推理故事；各篇的故事我最喜歡最後一篇"秘書課的男人"，除了因為自己是上班族所以感觸較多外，這篇的結局也比較正向(應該說是圓滿吧!!)，其餘的幾篇也都算是精采，雖然沒有很著重於推理的過程，但對於人性的描述都相當細膩，而也有種很平民化的感覺，似乎身邊的人就會碰到....，至於有人說看完橫山秀夫的書會不太舒服，因為這是我看該作者的第一本書，感覺上是還好，應該是我覺得人性有時候就是這樣.......