Edith Walter Knihy

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Straub completes the Blue Rose trilogy with this searing novel of psychological terror. Tim Underhill and the brilliant and reclusive Tom Pasmore court ultimate destruction as they dare to look back to a dark past that holds the secret of evil which signs its name Blue Rose.

"A Ruth Rendell Mystery Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . . 'A beautiful double-take plot. And characters seen with compassion. Her best yet!' H. R. F. KEATING THE TIMES"

She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . . In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble—quite literally—upon one of Arthur's many secrets. Haunting and intelligent, A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds—one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.

Psychologický román s kriminální zápletkou se odehrává ve dvou rovinách, které se spojí a události tak dostanou dramatický spád

Dějištěm románu oblíbené autorky klasických detektivních příběhů je typická anglická vesnice. Její obyvatelé se chystají oslavit zimní slunovrat starou lidovou pantomimou zvanou Tanec pěti synů. K hrůze diváků dojde při tanci k vraždě. Je povolán inspektor Alleyn, který vraha odhalí, a připojí tak ke svým úspěchům další. K poutavosti detektivky přispívá nezbytný milostný románek a četné místní svérázné postavy, zejména originální zámecká paní nebo všetečná Němka Bünzová, která se ze zvědavosti zaplete do nebezpečné hry