Ruth Rendell, Author, Barbara Vine, Author Onyx Books $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40388-9
Vine (the pseudonymous Ruth Rendell) offers a lyrical, leisurely paced psychological thriller that teems with deftly drawn characters who inhabit a dark world centered in the London Underground. (June)
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Barbara Vine, Author . Crown/Areheart $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4504-4
This rich, labyrinthine book by Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) concerns a "mystery in history," like her 1998 novel, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. Martin Nanther—biographer and member of the House of Lords—discovers some blighted roots
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Barbara Vine, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $25 (341p) ISBN 978-0-307-23760-6
British master Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) explores life among the Cosways, a country gentry clan that makes the Wuthering Heights
crowd look wholesome. Kerstin Kvist, a young Swedish nurse, takes a job at Lydstep Old Hall caring for John Cosway, a...
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Barbara Vine, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $25 (323p) ISBN 978-0-307-45198-9
British master Vine (the pen name of Ruth Rendell), a life Labor peer who used her knowledge of politics in 2002’s The Blood Doctor
to explore the personal rather than the political ramifications of power, does both in this intricate novel,...
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Barbara Vine, Author Bantam Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05215-2
A Dark-Adapted Eyefirst novel under the pseudonym Barbara Vine by the British author Ruth Rendellwon the MBA Edgar. This is the second, a mystery like all her works, transcending the genre. Evoked in beautifully ambient writing, the setting is a...
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Barbara Vine, Author Shaye Areheart Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57252-8
Writing as Barbara Vine ( A Dark-Adapted Eye ), Ruth Rendell adds dark, psychological elements to her novels that elude easy categorization as straightforward mysteries. Early on here, she establishes a knot of unknowns: Who is the sad, reflective...
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Barbara Vine, Author Shaye Areheart Books $23 (315p) ISBN 978-0-517-79964-2
``My life is a dull one,'' says Tim Cornish, narrator of much of this compelling thriller, which delivers such a dark picture of romantic love that murder seems its natural mate. Tim's workaday life in Suffolk as secretary for a cultural...
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Barbara Vine, Author Harmony $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-609-60789-3
Writing under her Vine pseudonym, Ruth Rendell offers another of her intriguing, multifaceted psychological suspense novels (The Chimney Sweeper's Boy and The Brimstone Wedding, etc.). The narrator here is Clodagh Brown, who, as a child growing up...
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Barbara Vine. Scribner, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9489-5
Parallel plots pivot around pregnant, unmarried women living with their gay brothers in this compelling novel from Vine (the pen name of Ruth Rendell). Grace and Andrew Eaton share a house in contemporary London, while Maud and John Goodwin are...
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Barbara Vine, Author, Ruth Rendell, Author Onyx Books $4.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-40211-0
Who is the sad, reflective narrator, and what illness might she have? What hold does the tall, dark woman called Bell have on her? And what happened at the carefully described House of Stairs in London that sent Bell to prison? PW called this...
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Barbara Vine, Author, Ruth Rendell, Author Shaye Areheart Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58796-6
From the pen of Edgar-winner Ruth Rendell's suspense-writing doppleganger Vine ( A Dark-Adapted Eye ) comes a sixth adroitly fashioned novel of insidious psychological dimensions. Anna, an uncompromising Danish wife stranded by her husband in 1905...
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Barbara Vine, Author, Peter Guzzardi, Editor Shaye Areheart Books $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58795-9
Imbued with a sense of foreboding so palpable that readers will turn nearly every page with deep apprehension, this lyrical, leisurely paced psychological thriller teems with deftly drawn characters who inhabit a dark world near the West Hampstead...
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Jonathan Lynn, Author, Antony Jay, Author, Barbara Vine, Author Salem House Publishers $19.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-88162-335-2
This sequel in diary form to the televised The Complete Yes Minister continues the saga of the blunderingly vainglorious yet well-intentioned Rt. Hon. James Hacker, Cabinet Minister of Administrative Affairs. Hacker, who has hitherto presided over ``
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