The Life We Bury

《我们掩埋的人生》是悬疑推理大师、资深辩护律师艾伦•艾丝肯斯的经典力作，悬疑推理与青春成长巧妙熔于一炉，这本书不仅悬念迭起，而且让人泪流满面。

如果不是遇到卡尔，我不会知道1967年越战重重杀戮下究竟埋葬了多少灵魂，也不会知道他入狱30年缄默不言的背后到底掩埋了多少秘密……

为了完成传记课作业，大学生乔在一家养老院找到了一位志愿者，卡尔•艾弗森：一位濒临死亡的越战老兵、被认定杀害14岁女孩入狱30年的一级谋杀犯。

然而，在书写卡尔故事的过程中，众多事件的浮现，使乔越来越没办法将这位越战老兵与谋杀犯联系起来。

乔，和他的邻居——一位聪明的女孩莱拉，决定调查真相。

他们找到了受害女孩的一本日记，抽丝剥茧，通过破解日记中密码一样的记述，他们逐渐揭开了一个隐藏30年的秘密。

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe’s life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.

As Joe writes about Carl’s life, especially Carl’s valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Aided by his skeptical neighbor, Lila, Joe throws himself into uncovering the truth. Thread by thread, he begins to unravel the tapestry of Carl’s conviction. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. Will Joe discover the truth before it’s too late to escape the fallout?