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A Dark-Adapted Eye

Ruth Rendell
4.2
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Pages
264
Year
2011
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

About

In the Edgar Award–winning classic, a niece investigates the shocking secrets that condemned her once proud family Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist's startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family's story in a new light.   Set in post–World War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family.

Related Subjects

  • General
  • Mystery & Detective
  • Adult Fiction
  • Psychological
  • Thrillers
  • Crime
  • Suspense

Reviews

"A rich, beautifully crafted novel . . . In A Dark-Adapted Eye we have Rendell at the height of her powers."
P. D. James
"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level."
Time

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