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This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of jealousy, murder and revenge that leads to the destruction of their entire family. — Teresa B. O'Donnell <sun.moon.stars@worldnet.att.net>.
A Dark-Adapted Eye. A woman investigates the shocking secrets that brought down her once proud family in this suspenseful Edgar Award winner from a New York Times–bestselling author. Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister.
About A Dark-Adapted Eye. Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt ...
Jun 1, 1987 · A Dark-Adapted Eye. Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 1987. Faith Severn, the niece of executed murderess Vera Hillyard, strives to protect her family from the terrible truth when writer Daniel Stewart begins to probe into a murder that took place thirty years earlier. Discover the latest buzz-worthy books, from mysteries and romance to humor ...
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Jun 23, 2009 · Rendell’s award-winning novels include A Demon in My View (1976), A Dark-Adapted Eye (1987), and King Solomon’s Carpet (1991). Her popular crime stories featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford were adapted into a long-running British television series (1987–2000) starring George Baker.
- Barbara Vine
May 7, 2009 · Books. A Dark-Adapted Eye. Barbara Vine. Penguin Adult, May 7, 2009 - Fiction - 304 pages. A Dark-Adapted Eye - a prize-winning crime classic by bestselling author Barbara Vine Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award 'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. James 'Compulsively readable ... a carefully devised plot ...
Oct 3, 2023 · A Dark-Adapted Eye, which won an Edgar Award in 1987 and was adapted for a two-part BBC series, is a slowly unfurling whydunit examining familial violence.
