| The Minotaur Contributor(s): Vine, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307278328 ISBN-13: 9780307278326 Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: Renowned mystery writer Ruth Rendell (writing as Barbara Vine) draws on the conventions of the 19th-century novel to tell a chilling and suspenseful story of cruelty and murder in a bitterly divided family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Gothic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.26" W x 8" (0.56 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Mentally Challenged - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Lydstep Old Hall in rural Essex to care for John Cosway, a former mathematical genius, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and kept under heavy sedation. John is the sole heir of the immense Cosway estate. As he takes his daily walks or sits quivering in a labyrinthine library, the rest of the family plots their own ways of coming into the fortune. It is classic Barbara Vine-an absolutely enthralling tale that keeps turning and twisting until the very last page. |