A Dark-Adapted Eye

A Dark-Adapted Eye

by Barbara Vine
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/05/2009

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A Dark-Adapted Eye is a modern classic. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James and Ian Rankin you will love this book.


'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. James


The prize-winning classic that 'changed the thriller landscape', with a new foreword from Val McDermid.


VERA HILLYARD. AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS.


Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it.


Now, the time has come to piece her story together.


What secret caused two devoted sisters to turn from love to hate?

And was Vera born a killer. . . Or was she driven to it?


**'Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease' Daily Telegraph


'Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel' Washington Post**

ISBN:
9780141938264
9780141938264
Category:
Crime & mystery
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-05-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Barbara Vine

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; born 17 February 1930), is an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

Rendell's best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, is the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV.

But Rendell has also generated a separate brand of crime-fiction that explores deeply into the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated.

This theme is developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine.

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