- The Minotaur
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name = The Minotaur
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image_caption = 1st edition hardcover
author = Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell )
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country =United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Crime /Mystery novel
publisher =Viking
release_date = April 7, 2005
media_type = Print (Hardcover ,Paperback ) &Audio CD
pages = 320 pp (hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0-670-91573-4
preceded_by =The Blood Doctor
followed_by ="The Minotaur" is a novel by British writer
Ruth Rendell , written under thepseudonym Barbara Vine. It was first published in 2005.Plot summary
Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. There's madness in the family' offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John. Barbara Vine's new book, her twelfth, is compelling in its depiction of the sex, lies and secrets within an apparently respectable family, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn't quite reached rural England (1943).
External links
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1557115,00.html Review from The Sunday Times]
* [http://www.mysteryinkonline.com/2006/04/vine_barbara_th.html Review from MysteryInk]
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1719003,00.html Review from The Observer]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601736.html Review from The Washington Post]
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/05/04/in_minotaur_menace_and_nostalgia_create_a_thrilling_mix/ Review from Boston.Com]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/04/11/barendell11.xml Author interview from The Telegraph from time of publication]
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