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Language English Pages 320 pp (hardcover) OCLC 57382246 Country United Kingdom | 3.6/5 Publication date April 7, 2005 ISBN 0-670-91573-4 Originally published 7 April 2005 Genres Mystery, Crime Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Crown Publishing Group (US) Similar The Blood Doctor, The Birthday Present, The Brimstone Wedding, No Night Is Too Long, The Chimney‑sweeper's Boy |
The Minotaur is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. It was first published in 2005.
Plot summary
Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. "There's madness in the family", offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John.