Martin Nanther auf den Spuren seines berhmten Urgrovaters, dem Leibarzt von Queen Victoria: Fr seine Verdienste um die Erforschung der kniglichen Krankheit hochgeehrt, fhrte Lord Henry Nanther ein vorbildliches Leben - scheinbar.

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

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 sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair--until the day Andrew...

"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." --New York Times Book Review
"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." --TIME
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...

"Psycho-Thriller der Superklasse."

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