" The Chimney Sweepers Boy"
- a classic crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine. " Gripping, almost impossible to put down". (" Guardian"). " One of the most frightening novels I have ever read... Gerald Candless, the monster at the heart of the maze, is a marvellous creation". (Amanda Craig, " Express on Sunday"). When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him & soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasnt Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? & what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years? " So ingeniously constructed, its truth & falsehoods are so deftly & convincingly interwoven, that its solution.. .is as jolting as a flash of lightning". (" Sunday Times"). " About the power of taboos, transgressions, guilts, deceptions, horrors, atonements, upsets & upheavals.. .gripping". (" Independent"). If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin & Scott Turow, you will love " The Chimney Sweepers Boy". Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including "A Fatal Inversion" & " 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" & " The Childs Child".