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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

by Barbara Vine

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Publisher Comments:

Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time.

Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart: a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself — and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.

About the Author

Barbara Vine won an Edgar Award for her first novel, A Dark-Adapted Eye. Her other acclaimed novels include A Fatal Inversion (winner of Britain's esteemed Crime Writers Gold Dagger Award), Gallowglass, and The Brimstone Wedding. She lives in London.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780671034290
Author:
Vine, Barbara
Publisher:
Pocket Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Authors
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories
Subject:
Mystery & detective
Subject:
Suspense
Subject:
Fathers and daughters
Subject:
Authors, English
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Adult children of dysfunctional families
Subject:
Problem families
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Biographers
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
June 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.25x5.26x.94 in. .70 lbs.

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