BRIMSTONE WEDDING

Vine, Barbara

| 1996

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The Brimstone Wedding - a masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine 'Intriguing, absorbing and compelling' Spectator Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband . . . Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will adore this book. 'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin 'A...

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Blommiga Barbro

2018-07-17

Betyg

Lättläst, småspännande, mycket välskriven bok. Dock ingen bladvändare, det tog väldigt lång tid innan något hände. Inte "Ruth Rendells" bästa bok, men helt klart godkänd.
Mitt slutbetyg blir, en 3:a!

janne lindh

2016-08-23

Betyg

Läste den på svenska.

Åse Bandling

2010-07-21

Betyg

Tyckte den var lite trög i början men ju längre jag kom ju bättre blev den.