by Barbara Vine · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140086362
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«A Dark-Adapted Eye» is the mystery novel by Barbara Vine, published by Penguin in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Set in 1950s England, the novel reconstructs the relationship between Vera Hillyard and her younger sister, Eden, two women who hide family secrets behind a respectable facade. The rivalry between them intensifies until it leads to murder; the narrative returns to the past to reveal the truth behind the crime.
Ruth Rendell wrote this novel under the pseudonym Barbara Vine; the book was nominated for the CWA Silver Dagger and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
For readers of crime fiction and psychological suspense, and for book clubs interested in family dramas.
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
