Book description
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 superb and original writer' Amanda Craig, Express
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. Viking have published
all her previous novels, including A Dark Adapted Eye, which won the
Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. Ruth Rendell sits in the
House of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.
