A Dark-Adapted Eye

By Barbara Vine,

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"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." -New York Times Book Review

"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a…

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Vera and Eden are devoted sisters. One of them has an illegitimate baby.

The book is allegedly devoted to telling the story of how Vera came to kill Eden, but in telling this story it also attempts to determine which one of them is the baby’s mother.

In doing both of these, however, it also details the ways in which people, even people who seem to be devoted to each other, can make each other’s lives miserable, and can choose to make their own lives miserable. 

Vine (aka. Ruth Rendell) is, of course the mistress of psychological suspense, and for…

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