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''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

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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 *

A Darkadapted Eye

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    A Paperback / softback by Barbara Vine

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/03/2016
      ISBN13: 9780241976883, 978-0241976883
      ISBN10: 024197688X
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      Contemporary Fiction Crime & Thrillers

      Description

      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 *

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