Barbara Vine

• Jun-1986
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Faith Severn's aunt, Vera Hillyard, was hanged for murder--and the reason behind her dark deed died with her. For three decades the family conspired to forget the crime. Now, an inquiring journalist prompts Faith to peer back to the day when her aunt...

• Aug-1987
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Something grisly was dug up in the pet cemetery at Wyvis Hall in Suffolk--the unmistakably human bones of a woman and a child. When businessman Adam Verne-Smith learns of the police investigation into the anonymous bones, he knows that the dark, desp...

• May-1989
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From a New York Times–bestselling author: A novelist pieces together the murderous past of an old friend—“smoldering suspense . . . literally unputdownable” (Time Out).   When writer Lizzie Vetch has tea with he...

• Apr-1990
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Saved from suicide by a mysterious stranger called Sandor, Little Joe becomes an abject servant to his rescuer's maniacal whims and a part of Sandor's plan to kidnap one of the world's most beautiful women...

• Apr-1992
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From an Edgar Award–winning author: Murder intrudes on a student’s secret history of the London Underground in this “brilliantly unexpected” mystery (The Times, London).   Jarvis Stringer is a young man of many peculiarit...

• Jan-1994
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This work is set in 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to east London from Denmark with their two sons. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing her diary. These diaries, published over s...

• Oct-1994
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Anna is a young woman living in turn-of-the-century London, confiding her rebellious thoughts and well-guarded secrets only to her diary. Years later, her granddaughter discovers that a single entry has been cut out--an entry that may forge a link be...

• Dec-1994
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Handsome, charming, faithless Tim Cornish has murdered his long-time older lover. Or has he? The beautiful stranger who enticed Tim into an intensely, erotic affair has vanished into thin air. Or has she? Tim must hunt the answers in a labyrinth of l...

• Jul-1995
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• Jun-1997
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Superstitious Jenny Warner, who works as a caregiver in a rural nursing home, is dying to confide in someone about her affair with a. married man. The person she talks with is gracious, proud Stella Newland, a new patient, who in her last weeks of dy...

• Jun-1998
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When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at al...

• Oct-2000
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"They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon." When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never en...

• Aug-2002
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Sometimes it’s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria’s favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that t...

• Apr-2005
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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 L...

• Mar-2009
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Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter -- a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe -- the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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From three-time Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society’s taboos When their grandmo...