The Boy in the Suitcase

　　星期六，尋常的立陶宛早晨。西濟妲帶著三歲的兒子米卡斯到幼稚園的遊戲場玩耍。忽然間米卡斯跳起來跑向一位年輕女子。那是西濟妲記得的最後一件事－－等她從腦震盪的劇痛中醒來，米卡斯已經不見了。

　　同時間，丹麥富商楊恩正滯留在前往蘇黎士的班機上。心急如焚的他在機上打了一通電話給他的秘書卡琳。幾個小時之後，紅十字會的志工護士妮娜接到好友卡琳的電話。妮娜依照卡琳指示，打開車站的43號置物櫃，發現裡面放著一只光亮的深褐色行李箱－－裡頭塞了一個全身赤裸的小男孩，雙眼緊閉，彷彿一件被摺疊的襯衫！

　　妮娜慌忙提著男孩逃離現場，並與卡琳約定在郊區的小屋見面，卻發現卡琳在床上活活被人打死－－是誰在追殺卡琳？這些人千方百計要奪這個男孩，究竟是為了什麼？男孩嗚咽著「媽媽，我要媽媽！」－－這個孩子不知在哪兒還有個媽媽！

　　一位憤怒絕望的母親、一個救子心切的富商，牽連一名無辜捲入的護士，和為愛亡命的暴徒－－四個毫無交集的人，竟因一只行李箱深埋的罪孽、邪惡而交纏。富裕的天堂難道只是人性醜惡構築出的夢境？而人究竟要為實則殘酷的善與愛，付上何等痛切的代價？

　　Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help — even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.
 
　　Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.

　　★本書中譯版《行李箱男孩》由出版。

作者簡介

琳恩．卡波布Lene Kaaberbol

　　1960年生於哥本哈根，十五歲出版第一本書，至今已出版三十多部小說。長年創作兒童青少年奇幻小說，擅於塑造身處遙遠世界與時光的人物，筆下世界常有魔法元素，面對的難題與當代讀者相似，使讀者在閱讀時容易融入情節。著名的系列有《W.I.T.C.H.》、《The Shamer Chronicles》等，作品累積許多獎項，譯成超過三十國語言。

安奈特．斐瑞斯Agnete Friis

　　記者、童書青少年文學作者，較著名的作品為《行李箱男孩》。

　　Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis are the Danish duo behind the Nina Borg series. Friis is a journalist by training, while Kaaberbol has been a professional writer since the age of 15, with more than 2 million books sold worldwide. Their first collaboration, The Boy in the Suitcase, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and has been translated into 27 languages.