King Solomon's Carpet - Barbara Vine

Grasshopper - Barbara Vine

Introduction I’ve read a couple of Barbara Vine novels before that I have thoroughly enjoyed, so had high expectations of this. Barabara Vine is a pen name for Ruth Rendell, but she may as well be a completely different author. The Barbara Vine books are based far more around characters rather than situations and she allows the reader to get deeply into the characters’ personalities. Yet, they are far more believable that some of Ruth Rendell’s non-Wexford books. The story Clodagh, who recently lost her best friend and lover when he was electrocuted while climbing a pylon (the grasshopper of the title) after encouragement from Clodagh, is packed off to London by ...

Grasshopper - Barbara Vine

Introduction I’ve read a couple of Barbara Vine novels before that I have thoroughly enjoyed, so had high expectations of this. Barabara Vine is a pen name for Ruth Rendell, but she may as well be a completely different author. The Barbara Vine books are based far more around characters rather than situations and she allows the reader to get deeply into the characters’ personalities. Yet, they are far more believable that some of Ruth Rendell’s non-Wexford books. The story Clodagh, who recently lost her best friend and lover when he was electrocuted while climbing a pylon (the grasshopper of the title) after encouragement from Clodagh, is packed off to London by ...

The Minotaur - Barbara Vine

"The Minotaur" is the twelfth and most recent novel by Barbara Vine, who is, of course, the alter ego of the highly successful crime novelist Ruth Rendell. The Vine novels are, I think, intended to be the darker, more psychological, less crime-genre side of Rendell s writing, giving her the opportunity to branch out in new directions… although to be honest, I m not convinced they are really all that much different from the (non-Wexford) novels she writes under her own name. The story is narrated by Kerstin Kvist, who as a young woman in the late 1960s comes from Sweden to the Essex countryside in order to work for the Cosway family; ostensibly, as a carer for ...

The Minotaur - Barbara Vine

"The Minotaur" is the twelfth and most recent novel by Barbara Vine, who is, of course, the alter ego of the highly successful crime novelist Ruth Rendell. The Vine novels are, I think, intended to be the darker, more psychological, less crime-genre side of Rendell s writing, giving her the opportunity to branch out in new directions… although to be honest, I m not convinced they are really all that much different from the (non-Wexford) novels she writes under her own name. The story is narrated by Kerstin Kvist, who as a young woman in the late 1960s comes from Sweden to the Essex countryside in order to work for the Cosway family; ostensibly, as a carer for ...

The Blood Doctor - Barbara Vine

Ruth Rendell s usual work, the language is much tighter and more like that of a top novelist rather than a writer of crime fiction. The author Barbara Vine, or Ruth Rendell as she is really known has written over 10 novels, starting with The Dark-Adapted Eye in 1986. She has won a variety of awards, including the Crime Writer s Association Gold and Diamond Dagger Awards. In 1997, she was created a life peer and took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh, which is probably how she knows so much detail about the House of Lords for this book. The plot Martin Nanther, a hereditary peer and author, becomes interested in the life of his great-grandfather, Henry Nanther, ...

The Blood Doctor - Barbara Vine

Ruth Rendell s usual work, the language is much tighter and more like that of a top novelist rather than a writer of crime fiction. The author Barbara Vine, or Ruth Rendell as she is really known has written over 10 novels, starting with The Dark-Adapted Eye in 1986. She has won a variety of awards, including the Crime Writer s Association Gold and Diamond Dagger Awards. In 1997, she was created a life peer and took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh, which is probably how she knows so much detail about the House of Lords for this book. The plot Martin Nanther, a hereditary peer and author, becomes interested in the life of his great-grandfather, Henry Nanther, ...