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根據真實謀殺事件，精彩、細膩又別出意義的真實犯罪類懸疑小說！
柯克斯書評星級點評，為對美國連續殺人魔泰德‧邦迪衍伸的犯罪小說中最傑出的作品
【那些被強行剝奪失去的，那些被意外留下卻痛苦的】
1978年在佛羅里達州立大學，身為塔拉哈希校區女生聯誼會的主席，潘蜜拉‧舒馬赫應該要出席今晚的派對才是，但她沒有。她在宿舍的房間裡處理文書作業，疲倦地入睡，直到深夜，一個奇怪的聲響將她從睡夢中吵醒。潘蜜拉決定下床查看，是不是有人派對回來喝太醉了？她還沒開燈，卻在黑暗中瞥見一個男人的身影，手上似乎拿著什麼，正前往後院，潘蜜拉身在暗處不敢作聲，悄悄尾隨，意外目睹男子犯下的恐怖暴行…
隔天，駭人聽聞的大學謀殺事件立刻在新聞媒體與報章雜誌上炸開，潘蜜拉成為唯一的生還與目擊者，她的姐妹會室友們遭到無情殺害，4個女子，4條年輕的生命，如此輕而易舉地被人殘暴奪取，她們已無生氣的眼中充滿驚懼，倒臥於深色血泊中，有些屍體在後院被發現已遭到肢解。
遭到嚴重打擊的潘蜜拉，感覺自己的某部分也已經死去。接下來的30年裡，她一直努力避免去回想這段衝擊的記憶，直到一天，她收到一封神秘的信件，一位名叫提娜‧卡農的女子，她的另一半茹絲於多年前在一個海濱樂園失蹤，提娜一心認為一切證據都指向同一個兇手，那個已經在全美殺害超過35位女性的連續殺人魔，但警察與法院卻忽視她的舉證。
潘蜜拉從沒想過自己會再回到塔拉哈希，但她和提娜決定不再讓這些恐怖事件主宰她們的餘生，儘管甚囂塵上的小報雜誌將那個兇手美化、吹噓成某種「犯罪偶像」，但謀殺就是謀殺，那些本該明亮、年輕的生命就此消失。她們自行展開調查，對抗尚未給予她們公道的司法與警察體系，對抗社會對女性的壓制和忽略…
A Saturday in 1978 in Florida: In the middle of the night, a man breaks into a female student dormitory. He goes from room to room and kills several residents. He will soon be known as one of the most famous serial killers in the USA. But he was observed committing his crime.
The survivors, including key witness Pamela Schumacher, will be forever changed by this night. They have all become victims. But they tell their perspectives here, they remain masters of their stories. And they hunt the perpetrator on their own - against resistance from the justice system and the police; against public opinion, which idolizes the serial killer.
作者介紹
Jessica Knoll is the New York Times Bestselling author of THE FAVORITE SISTER and LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE—now a major motion picture on Netflix starring Mila Kunis. She has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan, and the articles editor at SELF. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and bulldog, Franklin. BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN is her third novel.
