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Asta's Book

Autor Barbara Vine
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2009
Asta's Bookis a classic double-detective story by crime master Barbara Vine

For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Asta's secret'Sunday Times

It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.

'A dazzling domestic thriller'Guardian

'Obsessively readable'Sunday Telegraph

'Engrossing . . . a mixture of biography, true crime and romance people with vivid minor players and red with herrings'Independent on Sunday

'Absolutely enthralling ... the best yet from the Vine/Rendell bureau. Essentialreading' Literary Review

'Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever' Scott Turow

Asta's Bookis a modern crime masterpiece and will be enjoyed by readers of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow.

Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, includingA Fatal InversionandKing Solomon's Carpetwhich both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include:A Dark Adapted Eye;The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday PresentandThe Child's Child.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141040455
ISBN-10: 0141040459
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Barbara Vinewas the pen-name ofRuth Rendell, and Viking published all of her books under that name.

Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.

Recenzii

Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever