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Barbara Vine

    Barbara Vine je pseudonymom britskej autorky Ruth Rendellovej. Pod týmto menom sa venuje psychologickým detektívkam, ktoré skúmajú zložité rodinné vzťahy a dôsledky tajomstiev a zločinov. Jej štýl sa vyznačuje elegantným jazykom a prenikavým vhľadom do ľudskej psychiky. Vine (Rendellová) majstrovsky spriada pútavé zápletky a postavy, ktoré odrážajú spoločenské zmeny posledných desaťročí, vrátane problematiky domáceho násilia a zmeny postavenia žien.

    The Birthday Present
    The Minotaur
    Gallowglass
    A Fatal Inversion
    • In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery.

      A Fatal Inversion
    • When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. 'I saved your life,' he told the homeless youngster, 'so your life belongs to me now'. Sandor began to tell him a fairy-tale: an ageing prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one ankle, a missed rendezvous.

      Gallowglass