A dark-adapted eye / Barbara Vine.
In the Edgar Award-winning classic, a niece investigates the shocking secrets that condemned her once proud family Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist's startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family's story in a new light. Set in post-World War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family.
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- ISBN: 9781453214848 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1453214844 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [United States] : Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller : 2011.
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Set in postâWorld War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family. Called âa rich, beautifully crafted novelâ by P. D. James, Time magazine has described its author as âthe best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.â
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Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalistâs startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her familyâs story in a new light.
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Set in postâWorld War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family. Called âa rich, beautifully crafted novelâ by P. D. James, Time magazine has described its author as âthe best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.â
 - Open Road MediaIn the Edgar Awardâwinning classic, a niece investigates the shocking secrets that condemned her once proud familyFaith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalistâs startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her familyâs story in a new light.Set in postâWorld War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family.