Complex family relationships interweave with a murder plot in this ambitious new novel.

在这部构思大胆的新小说中，复杂的家庭关系与一个谋杀阴谋交织在一起。

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They hatched a plot to murder the king.

他们谋划杀害国王。

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This obsessiveness has even led to violent consequences. Last week, police in France said that they had thwarted a plot by a boy, 13, to murder his school teachers.

这种痴迷甚至导致暴力性后果，法国警方上周表示，他们挫败了一个13岁男孩企图谋害本校老师的阴谋。

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When, in the backwash of the 1929 Wall Street crash, his business (whose employees are all clad in chocolate-box lilac) suffers a downturn, he concocts a plot of murder and insurance fraud that launches him toward the roiling underworld from which prosperity had shielded him.

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One is the story of Alex White, an Atlanta drug dealer and police informant who refused to go along with a police plot to cover up the murder of a 92-year-old woman during a drug raid.

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But Milke offered a vastly different view of the interrogation and denied that she had confessed to any role in a murder plot.

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