The Lake of Darkness - Brossura

Rendell, Ruth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375704973 ISBN 13: 9780375704970

Casa editrice: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2001

Riassunto

An accountant shares the large sum of money that he wins with five people, including a cleaning woman who believes she is the reincarnation of Madame Blavatsky and her son who kills people to send them quickly into the astral dimension. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Ruth Rendell is surely one of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language."- Scott Turow

"Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint, with such a literate voice and an insightful mind, that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime."- Los Angeles Times

"Rendell's clear, shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional."- The New Yorker

L'autore:

Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. She is also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Ruth Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark Adapted Eye is the most famous. She lives in England.

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• Editore: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375704973
• ISBN 13: 9780375704970
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224