A Fatal Inversion

A Fatal Inversion

by Barbara Vine
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/01/2000

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A classic of the crime genre, *A Fatal Inversion*plunges you into the darker side of humanity with a plot that will keep you guessing throughout!


'An absolute winner . . . a gripping read from start to end' Daily Mail


'Brilliant. Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive' Sunday Times


'I defy anyone to guess the conclusion' Daily Telegraph


*****

In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young adults camp in Wyvis Hall, a beautiful Suffolk country house, after one of them unexpectedly inherits it. Revelling in their self-indulgent, irresponsible paradise, they scavenge, steal and sell heirlooms - to entertain and simply exist.


Ten years later, when the current owner buries their beloved dog in the Hall's animal cemetery, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered. But which woman? And whose child? As the facts slowly emerge, their past begins to catch up with them . . .


Written under Ruth Rendell's pen name, Barbara Vine, if you enjoy the novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book.


*****


***'***One of the best Barbara Vine novels' Goodreads Review


'Not an ordinary mystery . . . it is compelling and certainly thought-provoking' Goodreads Review


'Vine is expert at the slow disclosure of facts and feelings' Goodreads Review

ISBN:
9780141938271
9780141938271
Category:
Crime & mystery
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-01-2000
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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