"Gallowglass" is a thrilling crime classic from the bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine. When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. 'I saved your life,' he told the homeless youngster, 'so your life belongs to [...]

"The Birthday Present" by Barbara Vine - a gripping, psychological thriller packed with menace. Intensely imagined, fearful and satisfying' "Sunday Times". Tory MP Ivor Tesham has unconventional tastes. And in bored housewife Hebe Furnal he finds someone to share and enact his sexual fantasies. Howe[...]

"A Dark-Adapted Eye" - a prize-winning crime classic by bestselling author Barbara Vine. This is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. "A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel". (P.D. James). "Compulsively readable ...a carefully devised plot unfolded with the most cu[...]

"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 lon[...]

The Child's Child is the new crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine. What sort of betrayal would drive a brother and sister apart? When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to d[...]

Swedish nurse Kirsten Kvist has no idea what to expect when she takes a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, deep in the Essex countryside, but she soon discovers a bitterly divided family in which old secrets, sexual obsession, and betrayal lead to murder. Reprint. 17,500 fir[...]

When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music.

There's o[...]

From three-time Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society's taboos
When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her s[...]

What sort of betrayal would drive a brother and sister apart? When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house, they surprise few people by deciding to move in together.[...]

Unlike the other residents of Middleton Hall, Stella is elegant, smart, and in control. Only Jenny, her care assistant, knows that she harbours a painful secret, and only she can prevent Stella from carrying it to the grave. As the women talk, Jenny pieces together the answers to many questions that[...]

When Lizzie and Bell meet for tea after nearly two decades apart, the topic of conversation is murder one that Bell herself committed. When Elizabeth Vetch spots Bell for the first time in seventeen years, she chases her down in order to learn why her old friend committed a terrible murder all those[...]