Three spellbinders from a New York Timesbestselling Edgar Award winner unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time Patricia Cornwell This trio of Barbara Vine mysteries provides undisputable evidence that no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession instability and malignant coincidence Stephen King A DarkAdapted Eye Faith Severn never understood why her respectable aunt Vera snapped and murdered her own beloved sister But thirty years after Vera is condemned and hanged a true crime writers new investigation into the case is finally allowing Faith to see her familys unspeakable history and its bygone tragedy in a chilling new light An Edgar Award winner this rich beautifully crafted novel P D James is Ruth Rendell at her formidable best The New York Times Book Review The Chimney Sweepers Boy When celebrated author Gerald Candless dies at his clifftop home in Devon his daughter Sarah is commissioned to write his admiring biographyonly to discover her fathers entire life was a lie Now Sarah fears that understanding all her father has hiddenand whyis the last thing she wants A novel about the power of taboos transgressions guilts deceptions horrors and atonements Independent from the best mystery writer in the Englishspeaking world Time The Brimstone Wedding Mired in a loveless marriage and a troubled affair Jenny Warner has only Stella Newland to confide in A patient at the English nursing home where Jenny works Stella is open to hearing all about Jennys life Stella understands she has secrets too When she gives Jenny the key to her house it unlocks a mystery about the horrifying consequences of loveand Stella is drawn into a dark hypnotic story of romantic obsession The New York Times Book Review