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The Minotaur
The Minotaur | Barbara Vine
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The Minotaur - a thrilling novel from the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own ... 'The reader is kept in suspense throughout . . . vintage wine from the Rendell vine' Independent 'The Cosway family is a mesmerizing creation... I rushed through the last pages' Penelope Lively, Sunday Times 'Stealthy, credible, ingenious and addictive' Literary Review 'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin The Minotaur is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
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Minervasbutler
The Minotaur | Barbara Vine
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A young Swedish girl takes the job of carer to John, who is suffering from a mysterious disorder which necessitates his being heavily medicated by his ghastly mother. More Gothic than strictly crime, this is perhaps not absolutely top-drawer Vine but as well-written and gripping as one would expect.

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Autumnlong
The Minotaur | Barbara Vine
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Ruth Rendell‘s character building is honestly a little bit astonishing. I want to live in her pseudo-gothic novels. For some reason I‘ve torn through a handful of her books, but I creep through this one. I think I just don‘t want to come to the conclusion!

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LectricSheep
The Minotaur | Barbara Vine
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I feel like the holidays are always a good time for books about dysfunctional families. The Cosways (an elderly mother, four grown daughters, and a reclusive son they've labeled "mad") live together in a sprawling old mansion. When two of the daughters fall in love with the same man, it's the fuse that lights this insane powder keg. These characters are hyper-real-- and hyper-crazy. Family thrillers aren't usually my thing, but this was very fun!

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