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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
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.
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Publish Date: Apr 25th, 2006
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.90in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781416531937
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - General• Literary• Thrillers - Suspense
About the Author
Vine, Barbara: - Barbara Vine is a pseudonym for Ruth Rendell (1930-2015), who won numerous awards, including three Edgars, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as three Gold Daggers, a Silver Dagger, and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England's prestigious Crime Writer's Association. She was the author of numerous mystery thriller novels, including the Inspector Wexford series, Dark Corners, and The Child's Child.
Praise for this book
Joyce Carol Oates "The New York Times Book Review" One of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world.
Patricia CornwellUnequivocally the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times.
Joyce Carol Oates"The New York Times Book Review"One of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world.
"Entertainment Weekly"As [a] tantalizing puzzle unravels...the book delivers the oft-discounted pleasures of the page-turner.
P.D. JamesBarbara Vine has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche.
Patricia CornwellHer stories are a lesson in a human nature as capable of the most exotic love as it is of the cruelest murder. She does not avert her gaze...she magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing.
Patricia Cornwell Her stories are a lesson in a human nature as capable of the most exotic love as it is of the cruelest murder. She does not avert her gaze...she magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing.
"Kirkus Reviews" [A] richly textured suspenser...Vine at her most weblike.
"Time" When Ruth Rendell, already the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world, launched a second byline, Barbara Vine, she actually stepped up her writing level.
Scott Turow She is a writer whose work should be read by anyone who enjoys a brilliant mystery -- or distinguished literature.
P.D. James Barbara Vine has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche.
"Entertainment Weekly" As [a] tantalizing puzzle unravels...the book delivers the oft-discounted pleasures of the page-turner.
Amazon.com Riveting...Vine proves herself the equal of her alter ego and a master of the psychological thriller....[A] distinguished literary mystery.
Patricia Cornwell Unequivocally the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times.