Book description
The Minotaur - a thrilling novel from the bestselling queen of
crime Barbara Vine
Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the
Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his
family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is
grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark,
mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway.
Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless
determined to help John. But she soon discovers that there are others
in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated,
for sinister reasons of their own ...
'The reader is kept in suspense throughout . . . vintage wine from
the Rendell vine' Independent
'The Cosway family is a mesmerizing creation... I rushed through the
last pages' Penelope Lively, Sunday Times
'Stealthy, credible, ingenious and addictive' Literary Review
'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing
consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin
The Minotaur is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and
will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy
the novels of P. D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love
this book.
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written
fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal
Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include:
A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs
;
Gallowglass
;
Asta's Book
;
No Night Is Too Long
;
In the Time of His Prosperity
;
The Brimstone Wedding
;
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
;
Grasshopper
;
The Blood Doctor
;
The Minotaur
;
The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written
thirteen novels using this pseudonym, including
A Fatal Inversion
and
King Solomon's Carpet
which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. All her
books are available in Penguin. Ruth Rendell sits in the House of Lords
as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.
