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A review by spygrl1
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell
4.0
It's got the intricacy that is Rendell's trademark -- this time there is a mystery without a crime.
Noted author Gerald Candless dies at 71, leaving an embittered wife and two adoring daughters, Sarah and Hope. Sarah is approached by her father's publisher with the suggestion that she pen a memoir of life with her father. When she begins to do research, however she finds that her father's very identity is a puzzle. The real Gerald Candless died when he was a small boy, so who was calling himself Gerald Candless for all these decades?
Pieces of the puzzle are revealed to the reader through Sarah's investigations, through the painful recollections of Candless's widow, Ursula, and finally through a manuscript submitted by another author.
Noted author Gerald Candless dies at 71, leaving an embittered wife and two adoring daughters, Sarah and Hope. Sarah is approached by her father's publisher with the suggestion that she pen a memoir of life with her father. When she begins to do research, however she finds that her father's very identity is a puzzle. The real Gerald Candless died when he was a small boy, so who was calling himself Gerald Candless for all these decades?
Pieces of the puzzle are revealed to the reader through Sarah's investigations, through the painful recollections of Candless's widow, Ursula, and finally through a manuscript submitted by another author.