Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time. Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart: a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself - and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.
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Joyce Carol Oates "The New York Times Book Review" One of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world.
Joyce Carol Oates"The New York Times Book Review"One of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world.
P.D. JamesBarbara Vine has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche.
Patricia CornwellUnequivocally the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times.
"Entertainment Weekly"As [a] tantalizing puzzle unravels...the book delivers the oft-discounted pleasures of the page-turner.
Patricia CornwellHer stories are a lesson in a human nature as capable of the most exotic love as it is of the cruelest murder. She does not avert her gaze...she magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing.
Patricia Cornwell Her stories are a lesson in a human nature as capable of the most exotic love as it is of the cruelest murder. She does not avert her gaze...she magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing.
"Kirkus Reviews" [A] richly textured suspenser...Vine at her most weblike.
"Time" When Ruth Rendell, already the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world, launched a second byline, Barbara Vine, she actually stepped up her writing level.
Scott Turow She is a writer whose work should be read by anyone who enjoys a brilliant mystery -- or distinguished literature.
Book Description:
A classic crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine.
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- PublisherWashington Square Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1416531939
- ISBN 13 9781416531937
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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