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Three Barbara Vine Mysteries: A Dark-Adapted Eye, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, and The Brimstone Wedding Kindle Edition

by Ruth Rendell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Three spellbinders from a New York Times–bestselling Edgar Award winner, “unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time” (Patricia Cornwell).

This trio of Barbara Vine mysteries provides undisputable evidence that “no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence” (Stephen King).

A Dark-Adapted Eye: Faith Severn never understood why her respectable aunt Vera snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But thirty years after Vera is condemned and hanged, a true crime writer’s new investigation into the case is finally allowing Faith to see her family’s unspeakable history and its bygone tragedy in a chilling new light. An Edgar Award winner, this “rich, beautifully crafted novel” (P. D. James) is Ruth Rendell “at her formidable best” (The New York Times Book Review).

The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy: When celebrated author Gerald Candless dies at his clifftop home in Devon, his daughter Sarah is commissioned to write his admiring biography—only to discover her father’s entire life was a lie. Now, Sarah fears that understanding all her father has hidden—and why—is the last thing she wants. A novel “about the power of taboos, transgressions, guilts, deceptions, horrors, [and] atonements” (Independent) from “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time).

The Brimstone Wedding: Mired in a loveless marriage and a troubled affair, Jenny Warner has only Stella Newland to confide in. A patient at the English nursing home where Jenny works, Stella is open to hearing all about Jenny’s life. Stella understands; she has secrets too. When she gives Jenny the key to her house, it unlocks a mystery about the horrifying consequences of love—and Stella is drawn into a “dark, hypnotic story of romantic obsession” (The New York Times Book Review).

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Edgar Award–winning author Ruth Rendell (b. 1930) has written more than seventy books and sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (London), she is the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers’ Association. Rendell’s award-winning novels include A Demon in My View (1976), A Dark-Adapted Eye (1987), and King Solomon’s Carpet (1991). Her popular crime stories featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford were adapted into a long-running British television series (1987–2000) starring George Baker.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078C6JR42
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (December 5, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 5, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 9436 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 1137 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #599,844 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #6,430 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #9,298 in Crime Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #11,368 in Murder Thrillers

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Edgar Award–winning author Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) wrote more than seventy books and sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (London), she was the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers’ Association. Rendell’s award-winning novels include A Demon in My View (1976), A Dark-Adapted Eye (1987), and King Solomon’s Carpet (1991). Her popular crime stories featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford were adapted into a long-running British television series (1987–2000) starring George Baker.

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Christa Charter

Masterful

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2022

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Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine was one of the very best. Ever. Writing as Rendell the crime stories are more genre-specific. As Vine she gives herself permission to explore all kinds of weird stuff. So, SO good.

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ardee

Skillful writing, compelling stories

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2021

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A fine writer with a gift for plumbing the depths of human nature.
Three compelling tales which I would suggest reading not one after the other but at different times.

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Ona47

For me, a page turner…

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2022

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Ruth. Rendell (BarbaraVine) is a favorite author of mine. I like how she can tell the story from different characters point of view. If you have liked her other books, this won’t disappoint.

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2019

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I like all the Barbara Vine/ Ruth Rendell books although they are a little wordy.

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At times they are a little wordy.

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Randy Thill

I like Ruth Rendell, but...

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2022

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I read several of Rendell's novels and enjoyed them, but the first story in this put me off and now I find myself hesitant to begin the second. I may never.

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