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A Dark-Adapted Eye

Barbara Vine

3.93/5 (7923 ratings)

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Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions—to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.

Format:: Mass Market Paperback

Pages:: 278 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Plume

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0452270642

ISBN13:: 9780452270640

kindle Asin:: B00AG8GTK6

A Dark-Adapted Eye

Barbara Vine

3.93/5 (7923 ratings)

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Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions—to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.

Format:: Mass Market Paperback

Pages:: 278 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Plume

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0452270642

ISBN13:: 9780452270640

kindle Asin:: B00AG8GTK6

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