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A Dark-Adapted Eye

Auteur(s): Barbara Vine
Narrateur(s): Harriet Walter
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Like most families, they had their secrets...

...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the '50s was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.

©1986 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Détectives amateurs Détectives privés Fiction de genre Psychologiques Suspense
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not for me

Hard 3. Definitely not my thing. Read as part of my attempt to read through a list of 50 mysteries that someone (who I am beginning to feel used a questionable rubric...) deemed essential.
I have read one "Barbara Vine" book before, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. Was it good? No. Was it memorable? Yes. It was one of the sleaziest things I have ever read, and I've read Richard Laymon! It delighted in the taboo. <spoiler>The protagonist accidentally on purpose has sex with his brother in a bathhouse and the book ends.</spoiler> Needless to say, I expected something completely salacious and repellant.
I was wrong.
It was, honestly, kind of a snooze, and a little too genteel for me. But, she still managed to throw some taboo breaking in there. <spoiler>There's some pedophilia that is accepted as totally ok, and we are actually supposed to feel sympathetic to the grown man and antagonistic towards the boy</spoiler>
The main mystery was so... upper middle class skeletons in the family closet, full of thoroughly unlikable people. Like, they were almost all total jerks, selfish, narcissistic, cold-hearted, just gross.
The narrator is ok, but she is just that, narrator, spending the story on the periphery. It was a good plot device.
But yeah, I think that in the end, we are supposed to feel bad for one particular character, but to me it felt like a case if "you reap what you show."
If you like family melodrama, because <spoiler> the whole things revolves around who is a kid's mother, one sister or another. One never finds out for certain </spoiler> this could be a winner. If you are looking for a really good mystery, look elsewhere.

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