{"product_id":"9780452270640","title":"A Dark-Adapted Eye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love.\" —New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level.\" —TIME\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions—to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064916328688,"sku":"9780452270640","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780452270640_p0.jpg?v=1769917666","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780452270640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}