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In the Edgar Award–winning classic, a niece investigates the shocking secrets that condemned her once proud family Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist's startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family's story in a new light. Set in post–World War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family.
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"A rich, beautifully crafted novel . . . In A Dark-Adapted Eye we have Rendell at the height of her powers."
P. D. James
"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level."
Time