第三時效

by Hideo Yokoyama, 橫山秀夫, 張智淵 (Translator)

一班班長朽木 ─ 綽號「青鬼」，生性冷漠、手段鐵血，犯人聞之喪膽！
二班班長楠見 ─ 警界的「空降部隊」，冷酷無情、特立獨行，破案率百分之百！
三班班長村瀨 ─ 素有「天才搜查官」名號，心思細膩，擅用心理戰緝凶！

宛如大企業的警界組織，處處充斥著職權鬥爭與破案壓力，種種利害關係挑戰人性，
且看各領風騷的搜查一課三個班如何彼此較勁，誰才是重案組史上最強的一張王牌！

一起運鈔車搶案，一名宣稱無罪的智能型嫌犯，如何利用不在場證明翻供？
一樁強暴殺人案，牽扯出兩代不可告人的家庭秘密，兇手又將如何逃過警方的「第三時效」？
三起命案同時發生，重案組三班案中較勁，破案關鍵呼之欲出，誰才握有重案組的王牌？

一宗箱屍命案引發重案組「兄弟鬩牆」，嫌犯卻在警方滴水不漏的監控下憑空消失，到底是誰的錯？
十三年前的毒殺案，十三年後又發生了，目擊者看到的嫌犯竟然是同一人，這是巧合還是蓄意謀殺？
一宗慘絕人寰的滅門血案，重案組投入大批警力緝凶，水火不容的一班與三班正面交手，搶功行動愈演愈烈……

絕無冷場、驚心動魄的警察推理超絕短篇連作！
身歷其境、分秒必爭，一場接一場的犯罪現場與偵訊室之正邪對決！

本書共有六個短篇連作，分別有六起案子，主要角色均以日本F縣警總部搜查一課的第一班、第二班及第三班重案組刑警為中心，除了描述破案經過，更深入探討警界組織不為人知的面相與警務人員的內心世界，情節緊湊、層次豐富，篇篇發人深省。

〈沉默的不在場證明〉一起殺人劫鈔案，一名嫌犯落網，另一名主嫌在逃，警方苦無直接證據將落網嫌犯定罪，而嫌犯竟也在法庭上公然推翻自白，所謂的不在場證明到底是什麼……

〈第三時效〉一樁強暴殺人案，摧毀了一對年輕夫妻，生還的妻懷孕了，肚裡的孩子是亡夫的遺腹子還是歹徒的孽種？強暴犯在十五年以後依然逍遙法外，警方如何在「時效」將屆之前逮捕犯人呢……

〈囚犯的困境〉三起命案幾乎在同一時期發生，分別由重案組的一班、二班及三班承辦，這三個班的組長也在私底下個別較勁，除了全力投入查案，更想在上級面前搶功，最後到底是誰與爭鋒……

〈密室的漏洞〉一起殺人棄屍案引爆了第一班與第三班的「兄弟鬩牆」，兩個班以不同的偵辦方向查案，最後這起慘絕人寰的棄屍案到底能不能順利偵破？兇手到底是誰？所謂的「密室」到底是什麼？

〈假面的微笑〉十三年前，某化學工廠的氰酸鉀遭竊，其劑量足以害死上千名成人。不久，便發生一起討債人命案，死者的死因正是氰酸鉀中毒，警方根據當時目擊兇手的男童口述，畫下一張肖像畫。十三年後，公園裡的一名遊民遇害，警方根據目擊者口述所畫下的兇手肖像畫，竟然與十三年前那張畫像的人一模一樣……

〈顯影的黑白照片〉一起一家三口的滅門血案，搜查一課的第一班與第三班又爭相投入查案工作。警方在命案現場附近找到一個證人。對方供稱，命案發生時他人正在自家的暗房沖洗照片，只看到一輛白車，聽到女人的尖叫。然而，警方認為情況不單純，於是對這名「證人」展開更積極的調查，進而發現了更多驚人的內幕……

360 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2003

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

[Ziyun · Rating 5 out of 5]

写的真好，尤其是人物的塑造和心理刻画，读起来像看电影似的，栩栩如生。

[Shiyu Tsai · Rating 4 out of 5]

64看完覺得這是可以讓人安心的作者，再找了評論選了這本書繼續看。
本作應該是圍繞在F縣的警總部搜查一課集結的數個短篇。
本書翻譯的F縣警察本部的總部長跟64裡的D縣警察本部本部長應該是指同一個職稱，搜尋過後並沒有看到總部長這種說法。
不同出版社不同譯者之間的落差覺得很影響閱讀體驗。
正式通用的職級譯名有那麼困難嗎？
是好故事，但是這個翻譯版本很糟糕（春天出版）

[Angel 一匹狼 · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a collection of short stories about a police department, with every one of the six cases centering on a different situation (like statute of limitations or three members of the same family having been killed). Sadly, in my opinion, Hideo Yokayama hasn't had the same luck with this book as with ルパンの消息, and 第三の時効 comes out as a half-baked effort.

Knowing Hideo Yokayama writing style and habits, it may not be a great surprise that the style is fast and to the point, and that there are a lot of conversations, some of them which could be taken out because are a little bit redundant. But the writing style is not bad, it is good enough. The problems is that the stories are not very interesting. There is no much mystery, which is ok, but the characters are not really fleshed out, and this is a problem. They just go from A to B and talk a lot, but not much really happens. And you can't just write that a character hates women, you have to make the reader believe and feel that he hates women, and Yokayama fails. Maybe because the stories are quite short (around 60-70 pages each). On ルパンの消息 he had 400-odd pages to develop his characters and even if the book started a little bit slow, we got into the story and enjoyed it. Here, the same doesn't happen, and all seems more like an introduction to some weekly TV series than a real book.

Just a little bit lame and not very entertaining.

4,5