Barbara Vine

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  • A Dark-Adapted Eye

    A Dark-Adapted Eye

    Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime

  • A Fatal Inversion

    A Fatal Inversion

    The long-buried bodies of a woman and child are unearthed on a Suffolk country estate.

  • Asta's Book

    Asta’s Book

    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 keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary.

  • Gallowglass

    Gallowglass

    When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue.

  • Grasshopper

    Grasshopper

    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 escape your past.

  • House Of Stairs

    House Of Stairs

    A novelist pieces together the murderous past of an old friend

  • King Solomon's Carpet

    King Solomon’s Carpet

    Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London’s Underground.

  • No Night Is Too Long

    No Night Is Too Long

    Tim Cornish thought he’d gotten away with murder. For months after he’d killed his lover off the Alaskan coast, there hadn’t been a word. But then the letters started to arrive.

  • The Birthday Present

    The Birthday Present

    It’s late spring 1990, and a love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three-year-old rising star of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal

  • The Blood Doctor

    The Blood Doctor

    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

  • The Brimstone Wedding

    The Brimstone Wedding

    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

  • The Child's Child

    The Child’s Child

    When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together

  • The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

    The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy

    As Sarah researches her famous father’s past for her memoir, shocking secrets come to light and threaten her world.

  • The Minotaur: A Novel

    The Minotaur: A Novel

    As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel.

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