Book description
The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about
ambition, obsession and bad blood
'An outstandingly original book' Sunday Times
The current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of
Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the first Lord
Nanther, favoured physician to Queen Victoria, expert on blood
diseases and particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. What he
uncovers begins to horrify him as he realizes that Nanther died a
guilty man - carrying a horrific secret to the grave.
Weaving effortlessly between past and present, public life and
private life, The Blood Doctoris a superbly satisfying novel
that will be adored by readers of P. D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow.
'A magnificent novel' Daily Mail
'Intriguing and absorbing and wholly satisfying' Spectator
'Plotted with a jeweller's intricacy and ominous to the final
sentence' Sunday Telegraph
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 has published
her ten previous novels, including A Dark-Adapted Eye, which won the
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, and most recently The
Chimney-Sweeper's Boys and Grasshopper - both bestsellers. Ruth Rendell
sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale,
London.
