Barbara Vine 
Dark-Adapted Eye 

A Dark-Adapted Eye is a modern classic. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James and Ian Rankin you will love this book.’A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel’ P.D. James The prize-winning classic that ‘changed the thriller landscape’, with a new foreword from Val Mc Dermid.VERA HILLYARD. AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS.Faith Severn’s life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it. Now, the time has come to piece her story together.What secret caused two devoted sisters to turn from love to hate? And was Vera born a killer. . . Or was she driven to it?’Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease’ Daily Telegraph’Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel’ Washington Post