Mystery Books
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The Deadhouse (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back -- in this page-turning New York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes p
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Dead Midnight (A Sharon McCone Mystery)Stretching flat across the water, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is a popular spot...for jumpers. Roger Nagasawa, a brillian
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Perchance to DreamThe Sternwood Family, immortalized in" The Big Sleep," is in trouble again...Vivian's psychotic sister Carmen had disappeared
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Flight of the Intruder - 20th Anniversary Edition: A NovelAlso Available in an Audio Edition from Audible via AmazonIn Flight of the Intruder Jake Grafton is an A-
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Shoot Him If He Runs (A Stone Barrington Novel)Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise in this thriller in the #1 New Yor
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Caper: A Stanley Hastings Mystery (Stanley Hastings Mysteries)The latest in the beloved Stanley Hastings series―the unlikeliest private eye in New York City, who doesn’t even ca
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Mystery Movies
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PrometheusRidley Scott, director of "Alien" and "Blade Runner," returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundb
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Phone BoothA single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance a
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The Next Three DaysLife seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into
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SunshineThe story begins in the year 2057, as our Sun begins to die and mankind faces the unthinkable: extinction. Earth's last hope lies
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OrphanOrphan (DVD)Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga star as a couple who adopt a 9-year-old girl after losing their ow
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - A Darkadapted Eye
A Darkadapted Eye
Author: Barbara Vine
"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." —TIME
Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions—to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.
