The Minotaur

ISBN-13: 9780141042602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str.

Barbara Vine

Opis

Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John, a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. Kerstin is determined to help John. However there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated.

O autorze

Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and Viking published all of her books under that name.

Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.