From the back cover: "It's crazy thinking I can tell her," says Genevieve Warner, thirty-two years old, thirteen years into a loveless marriage, and recently swept into her first passionate love affair. "She's so old. She'll have forgotten what sex is." But Stella Newland, the gracious, dignified, dying woman that Genevieve cares for in an English nursing home, has not … [Read more...] about The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine: B+
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The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell: A-
From the back cover: When Mary Jago donates her bone marrow to help a complete stranger, the act bonds her with the young man who lives from her transfusion. He will change Mary's life in ways she could never imagine. But every act has consequences, often unforseen. Mary's generosity returns her not only love, but also its opposite. She finds herself in danger from both the … [Read more...] about The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell: A-
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine: A-
From the back cover: Like most families, they had their secrets—and hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred. They had to fight it out behind closed curtains using every … [Read more...] about A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine: A-
A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell: B+
Book description: Arthur Johnson's loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled tendency for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble upon one of Johnson's many secrets. Review: This short book is fun and creepy, and, on two occasions when describing Arthur's early … [Read more...] about A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell: B+