Barbara Vine
Barbara Vine is the pen name under which bestselling mystery author Ruth Rendell developed a series of stand-alone psychological thrillers exploring how a person's social circumstances and / or mental condition may trigger the impulse to commit a crime, or impact people's reactions and behavior...
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Barbara Vine is the pen name under which bestselling mystery author Ruth Rendell developed a series of stand-alone psychological thrillers exploring how a person's social circumstances and / or mental condition may trigger the impulse to commit a crime, or impact people's reactions and behavior as victims.
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Birth date: 1930-02-17
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Tedious, predictable, and boring beyond belief. I'd never have thought I'd actually ever say this about a book by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell in her standalone thriller writer incarnation), but there we are -- and not even Juliet Stevenson's lovely narration could do anything about it. The tedium o...
I miss Rendell so much and this book is a reason why. Damn, She takes a bunch of unlikable people and makes a compelling dark story. Stephen King eat your bloody heart out (and I know he is because he likes Rendell).
Not the best Vine/Rendell. Why the idea of literature and real life mirroring each other is good, the characters are flat, the mystery isn't really a mystery, and there isn't any suspense. The message is worthwhile, but meh to the book.
Many of Barbara Vine's books are available for Kindle Unlimited, and have gone on sale for $1.99 at different times. Barbara Vine is a pen name of Ruth Rendell's. Ruth Rendell also writes the long-running series about Inspector Wexford, which I have not read. These three books, though, are stand...
THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER’S BOY by Barbara Vine is a standalone novel from the renowned British crime novelist, who is best known for her psychological thrillers. Gerald Candless, a bestselling and a onetime Booker prize shortlisted author dies suddenly, the day after entertaining guests at his house on t...
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