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Barbara Vine

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My former colleague Perina recommended this excellent psychological thriller to me - and in doing so, introduced me to Barbara Vine, of whom I’ve been a fan ever since.  It’s the story of a woman writer who begins translating her great-grandmother’s diary from Danish, thereby uncovering a crime which has been undetected for almost ninety years.  There is a tremendously sinister atmosphere, and Vine is particularly artful in conveying to the reader the narrator’s fear, and managing to make the events she is reading about come alive - at one remove. - review by Dan Fenton