The Brimstone Wedding (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Vine, Barbara

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9780786206711: The Brimstone Wedding (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

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ISBN 10: 0786206713 ISBN 13: 9780786206711

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1996

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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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Review:

'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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A masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine.

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