Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by sistermagpie
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
5.0
I have a history with this book. Years ago PBS did an adaptation on Mystery! I remember starting to watch it because of the name, and then getting so engrossed I stayed up late. The next day at work I found other people in the same state for the same reason.
So I remembered finding this story engrossing, but apart from a single scene I couldn't remember anything about the actual story. So I could read the book completely fresh. And yet again, I wound up completely drawn in and engrossed. I don't know what it is about it, but it hooks me.
It's not a mystery in the traditional sense. There's a murder, but w know whodunnit. We even get told mostly the why. The real mystery is in the psychology of the family involved in the scandal--a mid-20th century British middle class family for whom a scandal is the worst thing they can imagine. I'm going to check out other books by this author to see if her other books are as psychologically interesting!
Oh, I should mention that in the end there actually is a mystery, one that will never and can never be solved, because people are like that.
So I remembered finding this story engrossing, but apart from a single scene I couldn't remember anything about the actual story. So I could read the book completely fresh. And yet again, I wound up completely drawn in and engrossed. I don't know what it is about it, but it hooks me.
It's not a mystery in the traditional sense. There's a murder, but w know whodunnit. We even get told mostly the why. The real mystery is in the psychology of the family involved in the scandal--a mid-20th century British middle class family for whom a scandal is the worst thing they can imagine. I'm going to check out other books by this author to see if her other books are as psychologically interesting!
Oh, I should mention that in the end there actually is a mystery, one that will never and can never be solved, because people are like that.