Barbara Vine

As Sarah researches her famous father's past for her memoir, shocking secrets come to light and threaten her world.

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

Ruth Rendell

Inheriting their late grandmother's sprawling, book-filled home in London, siblings Grace and Andrew Easton move in together and initially enjoy a shared life that is complicated by Andrew's gay relationship with a strident novelist, the shattering murder of a friend and Grace's discovery of a long-lost manuscript. By an Edgar Award-winning author. 40,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Child's Child

When a superstitious nurse in a rural old-age home reveals her relationship with a married man to a patient, she is given the key to a secret cottage that also unlocks a door into the patient's terrifying past. Reprint.

The Brimstone Wedding

It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.

Asta's Book

Faith Severn investigates the mystery of a family murder that her family tries it's best to forget.

A Dark-adapted Eye

'In a masterly and hypnotic synthesis of past, present and terrifying future, Vine casts a stone into her dark pond and lets the ripples spread . . . she has created a work that is both compelling and disturbing'. Sunday Times. 'This is the third psychological thriller by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine and when I say it surpasses the first two that's really saying something . . . Vine has not only produced a quietly smouldering suspense novel but also presents an accurately atmospheric portrayal of London in the heady 60's. Literally unputdownable'. Time Out.

The House of Stairs

Swedish nurse Kirsten Kvist has no idea what to expect when she takes a job with the Cosway family at their estate deep in the Essex countryside, but she discovers a divided family in which secrets, sexual obsession, and betrayal lead to murder.

The Minotaur

Med nervepirrende langsomhed afdækkes i tilbageblik de begivenheder, der fandt sted en sommer på et landsted nordøst for London

A Fatal Inversion

Biographer Martin Nanther becomes fascinated by the life of his ancestor, Henry Nanther, physician to Queen Victoria's family and a specialist in hemophilia, whose fascination with blood may have driven him down dark, violent, and criminal paths.

The Blood Doctor

Gallowglass

From the author Time magazine calls “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world,” comes an elegant and gripping new novel that blurs the line between psychological suspense and Gothic horror. Kerstin Krist arrives at the vine-covered Lydstep Old Hall in rural Essex to care for John Cosway, a former mathematical genius, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and kept under heavy sedation. John is the sole heir of the immense Cosway estate. As he takes his daily walks or sits quivering in a labyrinthine library, the rest of the family plots their own ways of coming into the fortune. It is classic Barbara Vine–an absolutely enthralling tale that keeps turning and twisting until the very last page.

Elizabeth Vetch and her recently widowed aunt Cosette move into the mysterious House of Stairs and find that troubled souls often come to roost there, and that murder lurks on the premises

En yngre kvinde, Jenny, får som ansat på et plejehjem i England et særligt forhold til en gammel døende kvinde, der betror hende en kærlighedshistorie, som i mange henseender er Jenny særdeles vedkommende

Roman

Schwefelhochzeit

Renate Orth-Guttmann

Das Haus der Stufen

Tale spanning three generations from 1905 in Hackney to present-day London, both a double-detective story and a quest for a lost child. Barbara Vine is a pseudonym of Ruth Rendell.

Es scheint die Sonne noch so schön

A GRIPPING, PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER PACKED WITH MENACE. IF YOU LIKE P.D. JAMES, IAN RANKIN AND SCOTT TUROW, YOU WILL LOVE THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT. 'Intensely imagined, fearful and satisfying' Sunday Times Tory MP Ivor Tesham has unconventional tastes. And in bored housewife Hebe Furnal he finds someone to share and enact his sexual fantasies. However, one day it all goes terribly wrong. Ivor plans a special liaison for Hebe's birthday - a daring sexual adventure. But dangerous games have unforeseen costs and consequences. And when there is an accidental death, scandal and ruin cannot be far behind . . . How long can a secret stay a secret? How long will friends protect a reputation? And how long before guilt catches up with you? 'The pre-eminent genius of the psychological thriller' Herald 'Gripping, compelling' Mail on Sunday 'Vintage Vine' Literary Review

The Birthday Present

Months after killing his lover off the rugged Alaskan coast, Tim Cornish believes he has gotten away with the crime, until a series of ominous letters informs him that someone knows what he has done. Reprint.

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