Dark-Adapted Eye

Dark-Adapted Eye Synopsis

A woman investigates the shocking secrets that brought down her once proud family in this suspenseful Edgar Award winner from a New York Timesbestselling author. Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist's startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family's story in a new light. Set in postWorld War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eyeis both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family. Called ';a rich, beautifully crafted novel' by P. D. James, Time magazine has described its author as ';the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.'

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