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The Minotaur (novel)

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
320 pp (hardcover)

OCLC
  
57382246

Author
  
Country
  
United Kingdom

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Publication date
  
April 7, 2005

ISBN
  
0-670-91573-4

Originally published
  
7 April 2005

Preceded by
  
Genres
  
Mystery, Crime Fiction

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Media type
  
Print (Hardcover, Paperback) & Audio CD

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.

References

The Minotaur (novel) Wikipedia


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