权力的玩物

简和伴侣的森林之旅出了岔子，当一个陌生人出现并质疑他们关系的真实性时，她开始怀疑自己是否真正掌握了现实的全部真相。

　　《悬案密码》系列的第三部：6年前，一只在海上漂流的瓶子在苏格兰被打捞上岸，然而里面的求救信却被视为不祥之物，直到一位调查人员无意中看出了信件开头用丹麦文写着：救命！随着卡尔和两名下属的破解，他们发现署名“保罗”的作者不仅确有其人，而且在写下瓶中信后便下落不明......　　为何少年的家人不曾追究他的行踪？难道他在多年前便已遭遇不测？正当调查陷入胶着，一起离奇车祸让原本天衣无缝的邪恶罪行露出破绽，串起所有线索的卡尔这才明白，自己面对的并不单是一桩陈年旧案，而是过去十几年来，许多破碎家庭的绝望呼救…

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　天才科学家大卫创造了世界首具拥有高度人工智慧的机械人亚当，并邀请当红的科技杂志记者荞依，进入实验室进行一週的近距离专访。在採访的过程中，荞依深受聪明又充满抱负的大卫吸引，萌生情愫的两人开始越走越近，而将一切看在眼裡的亚当，竟产生如人类般的忌妒情绪，行为更变得有些怪异与偏激...