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Book Synopsis''A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel'' P.D. James
The prize-winning classic that ''changed the thriller landscape'', with a new foreword from Val McDermid.
VERA HILLYARD. AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS.
Faith Severn''s life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it.
Now, the time has come to piece her story together.
What secret caused two devoted sisters to turn from love to hate?
And was Vera born a killer. . .Or was she driven to it?
''Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease'' Daily Telegraph
''Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel'' Washington Post
A Dark-Adapted Eye is a modern classic. If you enjoy the crime novels
Trade Review
Compulsively readable ... a carefully devised plot unfolded with the most cunning art. Wilkie Collins and Dickens would have admired it * Sunday Times *
Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease * Daily Telegraph *
Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel * Washington Post *
[Vine has a] dizzying ability to lock on to minds in chaos and snare us in their whorls of dread and doubt * Telegraph *
