Grasshopper is an enthralling, chilling novel by the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine 'They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon' When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon - a gargantuan electrified grasshopper - Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops...
Grasshopper is an enthralling, chilling novel by the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine 'They have sent me here because of what happened on the p...
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...
The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about ambition, obsession and bad blood 'An outstandingly original book' Sunday Times The curre...
It's 1990 & Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, & Hebe Furnal, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage, embark on an affair. Tesham decides to give Hebe a birthday present to remember. He arranges for her to be snatched from the street, bound & gagged, & delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue.
It's 1990 & Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, & Hebe Furnal, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage, e...
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.
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 ...
When Grace and Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they get on well, the house is large, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house?
When Grace and Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they get on w...
