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Asta''s Book is a classic double-detective story by crime master Barbara Vine

For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Asta''s secret'' Sunday Times

It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta''s granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.

''A dazzling domestic thriller'' Guardian

''Obsessively readable'' Sunday Telegraph

''Engrossing . . . a mixture of biography, true crime and romance people with vivid minor players and red with herrings'' Independent on Sunday

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Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever * Scott Turow *
Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever * Scott Turow *

Astas Book

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 5 July 2009
      ISBN-13 9780141040455
      978-0141040455
      ISBN-10 0141040459
      Also in:
      Crime & Thrillers Historical Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Asta''s Book is a classic double-detective story by crime master Barbara Vine

      For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Asta''s secret'' Sunday Times

      It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta''s granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.

      ''A dazzling domestic thriller'' Guardian

      ''Obsessively readable'' Sunday Telegraph

      ''Engrossing . . . a mixture of biography, true crime and romance people with vivid minor players and red with herrings'' Independent on Sunday

      '

      Trade Review
      Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever * Scott Turow *
      Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever * Scott Turow *

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