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A dark-adapted eye, Ruth Rendell
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1994
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- Titel
- A dark-adapted eye
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Ruth Rendell
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1994
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 014025482x
- ISBN13
- 9780140254822
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Psychologische Thematik, Historische Romane, Thriller, Familie, Spannung, Morde, Tod, Klassische Krimis, England, Psychologische Thriller, Familiengeheimnisse, Henker
- Originaltitel
- A dark adapted eye
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions—to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.