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Synopsis
Written by the same author as "A Dark-Adapted Eye", "A Fatal Inversion" which won the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award and "The House of Stairs", this novel set in Suffolk portrays the intense interrelationships of four people in a net of love, fear, greed and desire.
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About the Author
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fourteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Ruth Rendell sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.
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In the middle ages a gallowglass was the personal guard of the Celtic chief: the food taster, the right hand man, the expendable one who would die for his leader. Ruth Rendell, writing as Barbara Vine for the fourth time, here presents a tale of kidnapping, obsession, and loyalty told by two men thrust into the part of modern gallowglass. The Princess, a former fashion model with a penchant for marrying older, rich men, is the target once again of the man who had been her jailer five years before when she was held for ransom in Italy. She is protected by Paul Garnet, a failure as husband and teacher, now trying to be a good father to his seven-year-old daughter. The author plays cat and mouse with the reader as Garnet and Little Joe, the second gallowglass, reveal the motivations and weaknesses of her characters. A true master of psychological suspense, Rendell/Vine is in top form here as tension builds to a totally shocking climax. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/89.
- Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio
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- PublisherJohn Curley & Assoc
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0792705629
- ISBN 13 9780792705628
- BindingPaperback
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Brown and black cloth ; 1st printing ; "A pair of male lovers are enticed to take part in a kidnapping plot" ; Barbara Vine is the author of "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy" (Harmony, 1998), "The Brimstone Wedding" (Harmony, 1995), & "Anna's Book" (Harmony, 1993). She lives in London, England ; VG/FINE. Book. Seller Inventory # 321
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