Gallowglass (Eagle Large Print) - Softcover

Vine, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792705629 ISBN 13: 9780792705628

Publisher: John Curley & Assoc, 1991

Synopsis

Written by the same author as "A Dark-Adapted Eye", "A Fatal Inversion" which won the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award and "The House of Stairs", this novel set in Suffolk portrays the intense interrelationships of four people in a net of love, fear, greed and desire.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fourteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Ruth Rendell sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.

From Library Journal:

In the middle ages a gallowglass was the personal guard of the Celtic chief: the food taster, the right hand man, the expendable one who would die for his leader. Ruth Rendell, writing as Barbara Vine for the fourth time, here presents a tale of kidnapping, obsession, and loyalty told by two men thrust into the part of modern gallowglass. The Princess, a former fashion model with a penchant for marrying older, rich men, is the target once again of the man who had been her jailer five years before when she was held for ransom in Italy. She is protected by Paul Garnet, a failure as husband and teacher, now trying to be a good father to his seven-year-old daughter. The author plays cat and mouse with the reader as Garnet and Little Joe, the second gallowglass, reveal the motivations and weaknesses of her characters. A true master of psychological suspense, Rendell/Vine is in top form here as tension builds to a totally shocking climax. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/89.
- Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Curley & Assoc
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0792705629
• ISBN 13: 9780792705628
• Binding: Paperback