a gripping read from start to end' Daily Mail 'Brilliant. Shortlisted for Crime Writers' Association Dagger of Daggers Award 2005.A classic of the crime genre, A Fatal Inversion plunges you into the darker side of humanity with a plot that will keep you guessing throughout! 'An absolute winner. Winner of CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 1987. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye The House of Stairs Gallowglass Asta's Book No Night Is Too Long In the Time of His Prosperity The Brimstone Wedding The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Grasshopper The Blood Doctor The Minotaur The Birthday Present and The Child's Child. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell.
James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book. A most satisfying end' Daily Telegraph 'Nimbly written with all the Dickensian values of vivid characterization, fine prose style and a cunningly devised plot that shifts and twists and keeps you on the edge of your chair' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail A Fatal Inversion is a modern classic of the crime genre.
the clues are cunningly planted, so that it seems one should have known all along. Which woman? Whose child? 'I defy anyone to guess the conclusion. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. that compels a reader to go on turning the pages' Sunday Times In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive.
A Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine 'An absolute winner.
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