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"The Brimstone Wedding" - a masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine. "Intriguing, absorbing and compelling". ("Spectator"). Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband...Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, "The Brimstone Wedding" tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will adore this book. "The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together". (Ian Rankin). "A superb and original writer". (Amanda Craig, "Express"). Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including "A Fatal Inversion" and "King Solomon's Carpet" which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: "A Dark Adapted Eye"; "The House of Stairs"; "Gallowglass"; "Asta's Book"; "No Night Is Too Long"; "In the Time of His Prosperity"; "The Brimstone Wedding"; "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy"; "Grasshopper"; "The Blood Doctor"; "The Minotaur"; "The Birthday Present" and "The Child's Child".
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'A superb and original writer.' (Express UK)
'Intriguing, absorbing and compelling.' (The Spectator)
'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together.' (Ian Rankin)
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'Intriguing, absorbing and compelling.' (The Spectator)
'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together.' (Ian Rankin)
A masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine.
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- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0140252800
- ISBN 13 9780140252804
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