【图书简介】 When a young female trainee is found brutally murdered in the Nurses' Station of the Western State Mental Hospital， Massachusetts， there is apparently no shortage of suspects - a whole hospitalof them. One inmate claims to have seen the killer， whom he will describe only as The Angel.Twenty years later， Francis Petrel， once a patient at the hospital， writes his account of the eventsof the murder and its investigation on the walls of his tiny apartment. As he writes he is visited byhallucinations， and by an increasing anxiety at his loosening grip on reality. As he goes deeperand deeper into his story about those events， his own madness returns. He remembers being co-opted into the investigation by Lucy Jones， a driven young profiler who has her own reasons for pursuing this particular killer. But she and Francis face the same conundrum： how does onefind a cold-blooded killer masquerading as mad in a world populated by the deranged？In the end it will come down to Francis， for he is the only member of the investigating team capable of recognizing the essential lie that The Angel embodies： for though his acts are those of a madman， he most emphatically is not...-读书网|DuShu.com
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