A Dark-Adapted Eye
mai 2009 · Penguin UK
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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
'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
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Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and Viking published all of her books under that name.
Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
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