Three Barbara Vine Mysteries

Three Barbara Vine Mysteries Synopsis

Three spellbinders from a New York Timesbestselling Edgar Award winner, ';unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time' (Patricia Cornwell). This trio of Barbara Vine mysteries provides undisputable evidence that ';no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence' (Stephen King). A Dark-Adapted Eye: Faith Severn never understood why her respectable aunt Vera snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But thirty years after Vera is condemned and hanged, a true crime writer's new investigation into the case is finally allowing Faith to see her family's unspeakable history and its bygone tragedy in a chilling new light. An Edgar Award winner, this ';rich, beautifully crafted novel' (P. D. James) is Ruth Rendell ';at her formidable best' (The New York Times Book Review). The Chimney Sweeper's Boy: When celebrated author Gerald Candless dies at his clifftop home in Devon, his daughter Sarah is commissioned to write his admiring biographyonly to discover her father's entire life was a lie. Now, Sarah fears that understanding all her father has hiddenand whyis the last thing she wants. A novel ';about the power of taboos, transgressions, guilts, deceptions, horrors, [and] atonements' (Independent) from ';the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world' (Time). The Brimstone Wedding: Mired in a loveless marriage and a troubled affair, Jenny Warner has only Stella Newland to confide in. A patient at the English nursing home where Jenny works, Stella is open to hearing all about Jenny's life. Stella understands; she has secrets too. When she gives Jenny the key to her house, it unlocks a mystery about the horrifying consequences of loveand Stella is drawn into a ';dark, hypnotic story of romantic obsession' (The New York Times Book Review).

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