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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

of Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell

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3.76 (3555 reviews)
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Description

Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time.Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart: a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself -- and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.

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Mystery Mystery Fiction Crime Mystery Thriller Thriller British Literature Suspense Contemporary Drama Literature

Main Characters

Gerald Candless Ursula Candless Sarah Candless Hope Candless Jason Thague Sam Fleming Adam Foley

Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 344 pages
  • Publisher Washington Square Press
  • Publication Date April 25th 2006
  • First Publication 03/26/98
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9781416531937
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Mystery & Thriller
  • Scenario ['Devon, England', 'London, England']

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