The best Barbara Vine novel, in my opinion. Unusually, it is not so much a mystery, as the reader knows what happened from the start. It's a bit like "light the blue touchpaper and stand well back," a chain reaction, or domino effect series of events leading to a final and inevitable fall from ...
I am never sure abut Barbara VineClearly aimed at being more literary than the Ruth Rendell brand (especially Wexford), but never quite satisfying.The premise of this with how a secret is kept, and the difference in people's attitudes. I didn't like jump to two narrative points of view, and a di...
One of my favorite - and most frequently re-read - Vines. My last re-read was Summer 2006, and I'm feeling it 'call' to me. Rendell has called this her "Henry James novel."7/04/11: I didn't re-read it when I made the above comment, probably two years ago, but I am re-reading it now.7/07/11: Thi...
I really had no idea what to read first in 2015. I actually felt like I had the reader's equivalent of writer's block, especially when reading others' blog posts and tweets about how the first book of the year should be some significant, symbolic choice that would set the tone for the year to com...