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A Dark-Adapted Eye

A Dark-Adapted Eye

Rendell, Ruth

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0452270642
ISBN13: 9780452270640
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Oct 1 1993
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.10 Depth: 6.70
Language: English
Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love. --New York Times Book Review

When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level. --TIME

Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions--to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.

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