Book description
A Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of
crime Barbara Vine
'An absolute winner ... a gripping read from start to end' Daily Mail
'Brilliant. Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive ...
that compels a reader to go on turning the pages' Sunday Times
In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping
in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why
they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell
the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the
bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal
cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?
'I defy anyone to guess the conclusion ... the clues are cunningly
planted, so that it seems one should have known all along. A most
satisfying end' Daily Telegraph
'Nimbly written with all the Dickensian values of vivid
characterization, fine prose style and a cunningly devised plot that
shifts and twists and keeps you on the edge of your chair' Val
Hennessy, Daily Mail
A Fatal Inversion is a modern classic of the crime genre. 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
fourteen 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.
