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Barbara Vine

Barbara Vine

·3.77·32,316 Ratings
“ Nothing in nature is unbeautiful. ” ― Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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  • The Blood Doctor

    2002·
    ·3.51·1,227 Ratings
    When Martin Nanther, Hereditary Peer in the House of Lords, is choosing the subject of his next biography, he becomes intrigued by the life of his own great-grandfather, Henry Nanther. So grateful was Queen Victoria for Henry’s services as physician to
  • A Fatal Inversion

    1992·
    ·3.96·2,616 Ratings
    A Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine 'An absolute winner ... a gripping read from start to end' Daily Mail 'Brilliant. Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive ... that compels a reader to go on turning th
  • The Brimstone Wedding

    1997·
    ·3.83·1,658 Ratings
    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
  • King Solomon's Carpet

    1992·
    ·3.77·1,282 Ratings
    King Solomon's magic carpet is the London Underground, running past the disused old school building that houses the most ill-assorted covey that Vine (Ruth Rendell) has brought together since A Fatal Inversion for this updating of Conrad's novel of terror
  • Grasshopper

    2002·
    ·3.75·1,359 Ratings
    “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 entirely
  • The House of Stairs

    1988·
    ·3.85·1,519 Ratings
    The House of Stairs - an unputdownable crime classic from bestselling author Barbara VineLizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a London street she jumps out and pursues her despite 'all the
  • The Minotaur

    2006·
    ·3.58·1,752 Ratings
    As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for gen
  • No Night is Too Long

    1996·
    ·3.87·977 Ratings
    Tim thought he'd gotten away with it. For months after the murder off the Alaskan coast he'd heard not a word. No policeman at his door asking questions. Nothing. And then the letters began. At first they seemed almost innocuous accounts of historical eve
  • Gallowglass

    1992·
    ·3.73·928 Ratings
    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 agei
  • Anna's Book

    1994·
    ·4·1,915 Ratings
    The bestselling author of King Solomon's Carpet presents a tour de force of psychological suspense involving the malevolent consequences of a 75-year old murder. Vine is the recipient of three Edgars and four Gold Dagger Awards.
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