The Brimstone Wedding

The Brimstone Wedding

infobox Book |
name = The Brimstone Wedding
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption =
author = Barbara Vine
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
genre = Crime / Mystery novel
publisher = Viking
release_date = March 28 1996
media_type = Print/Audiobook
pages = 320 (paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0140252800
preceded_by = No Night is Too Long
followed_by = The Chimney-sweeper's Boy

"The Brimstone Wedding" is a 1996 mystery novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine.

Plot summary

Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's wife.


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