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Barbara Vine: Asta's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 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 keep 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 they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing…

Barbara Vine: The Birthday Present

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The latest Vine novel, published by Viking in August, is called The Birthday Present, and I believe it is destined to take its place beside the very best of her novels. It has a sensational plot: a right-wing government minister is conducting an illicit sado-masochistic affair with a young married woman. As a surprise birthday present, he arranges for her to be 'kidnapped' off the street, and…

Barbara Vine: The House of Stairs (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a house in London. One of them was murdered, but who was it? We slowly find out the truth, as the past, the present and the future join together in a frightening story.

Barbara Vine: The Minotaur

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: 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…