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A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Category: Fiction
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, ...Show more
A Dark-Adapted Eye (Popular Penguins Crime) by Barbara Vine
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Vera was prim and fastidious. Eden was beautiful and adored. Like most families they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. Yet their sisterly bond was strained by obsession, manipulation and murderous jealousy. Buried secrets rarely stay buried, and their past still ...Show more
A Dark-adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'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 w ...Show more
A Dark-adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to ...Show more
A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
Category: Fiction
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a w ...Show more
Asta's Book by Barbara Vine
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere jou ...Show more
Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine
Category: Fiction
Blood is going to be its theme ... Blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title and blood as the transmitter of hereditary disease. Genes, we'd say now, but not in the nineteenth century when Henry Nanther was born and grew up and achieved a kind of greatness, not then. It was ...Show more
Gallowglass by Barbara Vine
Category: Audio Books
When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. 'I saved your life,' he told the homeless youngster, 'so your life belongs to me now'. Sandor began to tell him a fairy-tale: an ageing prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one an ...Show more
Grasshopper by Barbara Vine
Category: Audio Books
'They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon' When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of 19, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on th ...Show more