The Brimstone Wedding

The Brimstone Wedding - a masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine

Intriguing, absorbing and compellingSpectator

Jennys marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old peoples home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jennys - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lovers husband . . .

Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will adore this book.

The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together Ian Rankin
A superb and original writer Amanda Craig, Express

Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomons Carpet which both won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Astas Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweepers Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Childs Child.