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Swedish nurse Kirsten Kvist has no idea what to expect when she takes a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, deep in the Essex countryside, but she soon discovers a bitterly divided family in which old secrets, sexual obsession, and betrayal lead to murder. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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From the author Time magazine calls “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world,” comes an elegant and gripping new novel that blurs the line between psychological suspense and Gothic horror. Kerstin Krist arrives at the vine-covered Lydstep Old Hall in rural Essex to care for John Cosway, a former mathematical genius, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and kept under heavy sedation. John is the sole heir of the immense Cosway estate. As he takes his daily walks or sits quivering in a labyrinthine library, the rest of the family plots their own ways of coming into the fortune. It is classic Barbara Vine–an absolutely enthralling tale that keeps turning and twisting until the very last page.
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