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	Barbara Vine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Barbara Vine interweaves past and present, fiction and reality, in her extraordinarily rich novel, which has at its centre a compelling mystery.
		Barbara Vine shows us the world as it is, and also through her writing we sense how it might be; her powerful moral vision, while showing us the worst, gives us back a knowledge of how to act for the right.
		Writing as Barbara Vine, she has won numerous awards: A Dark Adapted Eye received huge critical acclaim and was an Edgar Award Winner, A Fatal Inversion won the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award for 1987 and King Solomon's Carpet won the 1992 Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/bvine.html (1189 words)

	A Woman Reads Between The Lines of Her Father's Life / Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) creates a deliciously complex ...
		Barbara Vine creates such a quietly absorbing first chapter, so full of detail and hints about the family's character, that Gerald's sudden death comes as a shock.
		It is the only scene of violence in ``The Chimney Sweeper's Boy.'' Vine's concern is not with Gerald's death but with the mystery behind his life and those he touched: the cloying adoration of his daughters, the quiet bitterness of his wife, the complete lack of contact with anyone from his youth.
		Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, whose intelligent, offbeat crime novels include the Inspector Wexford series of English police procedurals.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/20/RV84465.DTL&type=printable (967 words)

	The House of Stairs
		barbara vine (ruth rendell): the house of stairs
		Like all of Barbara Vine's books it's a little heavier reading than the Ruth Rendell books and this time I was unable to take much interest in the story.
		Unfortunately, this is a Barbara Vine book I wouldn't instantly recommend but then again, this was one of her very first books and she has gotten a whole lot better since then.
	www.geocities.com /dec18kc/2002/houseofstairs.htm (269 words)

	BookkooB: The Blood Doctor - Barbara Vine
		Vine's Blood Doctor is a well written painstaking work that doesn't really reward all of the hard work that is required to plough through the quasi-biographical detail.
		The serious, intellectual tone and Vine's careful attention to detail, particularly as it reveals the psychology and motivation of her characters, elevate this a serious novel and give the reader much to contemplate.
		She manages to make the issue of genetic mutations (which is how hemophilia is passed down from generation to generation) more real by putting it in a modern day context: Martin's wife experiences a series of miscarriages caused, it is later revealed, by a genetic disorder.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0141009160.htm (1706 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Granted, Vine's ability to capture her reader totally, as in her thrillers, is once again to the fore.
		And Vine is at her best as she lays bear the souls of her principle characters.
		I will still try other books by Barbara Vine as I like detective and thriller books as well and, if this novel is anything to go by, I really enjoyed her style of writing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140272348 (1106 words)

	USC College : College Magazine : Fall 2003 : Russet Considers Gender Mysteries
		Writing under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, Rendell has authored more than a dozen novels that depart dramatically from the 40-odd whodunits written under her own name.
		In her analysis, Russett explores Rendell’s ambition to move beyond genre, and how this reveals the line separating the literary from the “generic,” the high culture from the low and popular fiction from elite literature.
		For example, Rendell considers Vine a feminine alter ego, and the Vine books focus more on women and their issues than Rendell’s other books.
	www.usc.edu /schools/college/college_magazine/fall_2003/russet_considers_gender_mysteries.html (451 words)

	Santa Barbara Attractions
		Santa Barbara is a captivating blend of colorful history, distinctive architecture and legendary Southern California lifestyle.
		The Mission Santa Barbara, also known as the Queen of Missions, showcases historical architecture for which Santa Barbara is known.
		Sheltered at the base of Santa Ynez mountains in the northern tip of Santa Barbara, Goleta is a sportsman's paradise with a host of family recreational activities, including biking, bird watching on the famous Goleta Slough, fishing from the pier or volleyball at Goleta Beach.
	www.sbchamber.org /visitors/attractions.html (707 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Both uses are appropriate for Barbara Vine’s latest novel.
		This time Dame Ruth Rendell aka Barbara Vine takes us behind the scenes of the House of Lords when that august body is voting on whether or not to continue as it has for centuries.
		He doesn’t want to be a father again and it seems a shame that he might have that opportunity once more.
	www.themysteryreader.com /vine-blood.html (463 words)

	Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) A Fatal Inversion Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Rendell turned to the Vine pseudonym to write novels outside the style of her usual 'novels of suspense' or the Inspector Wexford mysteries.
		Vine masterfully evokes the days of anyone's lost post-college youth, the heat of the summers, the ultimately evasive climactic, meaningful moment that remains hidden dense shade and blinding sunlight.
		What Rendell as Vine does so well is misdirect the reader, to suck the reader into the characters' heads and the characters' lives without the reader realizing that this is being done.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/rendell-a_fatal_inversion.htm (462 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Brimstone Wedding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She builds the atmosphere brilliantly in both the time periods, and the suspense is continually ratcheted up, helped along by subtle and tantalising hints as to what exactly Stella’s shocking secret could possibly be.
		This time around, the characters are also more likeable than is the norm for a Vine novel, so it has a warmer, deceptively (and dangerously) cosy feel, which is juxtaposed with the usual chilly atmosphere and down-to-the-bones and wonderfully detached writing style.
		This revelation is not overblown and exaggerated, as some authors might make it, instead Vine underplays it, clearing it entirely of melodrama and simply telling things exactly as they were, which forces the reader to actually think about it, thus bringing huge power to the climax.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140252800 (1016 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: No Night Is Too Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vine (Anna's Book; The House of Stairs), the suspense-writing persona of Ruth Rendell, sets out what seems to be a full, straightforward picture.
		Even in her slightly warmer incarnation as Barbara Vine, her take on human foibles and on matters of love tends to be chilly and steely-eyed.
		Rendell has said that she created the new "Vine" line to be able to take a more human, personal viewpoint than she did in the Rendell books -- well, perhaps so, although the main character Tim Cornish, from whose viewpoint this is told, is vintage Rendell, i.e., hard to like.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451406346?v=glance (2349 words)

	Powell's Books - The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drawing from the dark themes of obsession and murder that drive so many of Barbara Vine’s extraordinary novels, The Blood Doctor is also enriched by domestic intimacies familiar to readers of Ruth Rendell’s beloved Inspector Wexford novels and by details of Dame Rendell’s own experience as a Life Peer in the House of Lords.
		In the tenth mystery bearing the pen name of Barbara Vine, internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell illuminates the struggle between the desire to heal and the baser human instincts.
		Barbara Vine’s acclaimed novels include A Dark-Adapted Eye, Anna’s Book, and, most recently, Grasshopper.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=1400045045 (364 words)

	Powell's Books - The Chinmey Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This deft, dark, and unforgettable new novel by Barbara Vine is the story of bestselling author Gerald Candless, whose sudden death of a heart attack leaves behind a wife and two daughters.
		As her life is slowly torn apart, a terrible logic finally emerges to explain her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself in his work, and a long-forgotten London murder.
		Barbara Vine's first novel, A Dark-Adapted Eye, won an Edgar Award, the highest individual honor of the Mystery Writers of America.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-060960287x-0 (391 words)

	Barbara Vine - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		The Blood Doctor, Barbara Vine’s latest thriller, is a chilling tale of ambition, obsession and bad blood.
		Before I became Barbara Vine, before I had a pseudonym, I had often left the detective genre and written novels which were crime novels but didn't have any policemen in them and I rather liked doing that.
		When I did, I realised it would be so different from what I'd done before that I couldn't publish it as Ruth Rendell and then I took the pseudonym using the maiden name from one of my great grandmothers and my own second christian name.
	www.greatthamesread.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000032990,00.html?sym=BIO (1256 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hence they make such vitriolic and ridiculous claims - to call Barbara Vine's work "tabloid sensationalism" is stupid beyond belief, considering what a sensitive writer she is. As for the narrow-minded cretin who found the book "nauseous", I pity you.
		Vine's books are rich and absorbing character studies with an element of mystery; enjoyment of them is not based around working out 'whodunnit'.
		Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine manages to draw the reader in, but one can't help feeling that none of the people in the story were worth getting to know.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/060960287X?v=glance (1863 words)

	Powell's Books - Grasshopper by Barbara Vine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her Barbara Vine novels are written in exquisitely crafted layers, peeled away page by page to expose the darkest longings and obsessions of the human heart.
		Ruth Rendell's tenth novel, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, tells the chilling story of an English woman who recalls her life, realizing her compulsion for climbing and peering into windows saved her life, but admitting it cost a terrible price.
		BARBARA VINE's novels include A Dark-Adapted Eye, Anna's Book, and The Chimney Sweeper's Boy.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0609607898-1 (355 words)

	Belletristik Barbara Vine - Testbericht - Heuschrecken bei dooyoo.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Barbara Vine ist identisch mit der renommierten Krimiautorin Ruth Rendell, allgemein könnte man sagen, dass sie ihre Bücher immer dann, wenn der Krimiplot im Vordergrund steht, als Rendell schreibt, und wenn es ihr mehr um eine richtige Romankonstruktion geht, als Vine,
		Obwohl Rendell meist wirklich gute Krimis schreibt, schätze ich die Bücher von Barbara Vine viel mehr.
		Barbara Vine gelingt es, dem Leser in einer sehr sensiblen Weise die inneren Gedankengänge des Mädchens, ihre Depressionen, ihre Schuldgefühle, das Gefühl, von den Eltern, ihren Freunden, ihrer Nachbarschaft nicht mehr akzeptiert zu werden und nicht zuletzt ihre tiefe Trauer um ihren Freund, wirklich nahe zu bringen.
	www.dooyoo.de /belletristik/barbara-vine/534282 (756 words)

	The know by Martina Cole - The Book Forum
		I have never read a Ruth Rendell or Barbara Vine book before; I prefer books without the same main character in each.
		Barbara Vine`s are like that, each book is a one off story.
		As Ruth Rendell, she writes the Inspector Wexford series,which are okay (under any name Vine/Rendell is a masterly writer, but when she is Barbara Vine she is very, very good.
	www.forums.thebookforum.com /showthread.php?t=7888 (710 words)

	Barbara Vine
		Under the name of Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell writes psychological thrillers.
		Too often in thrillers, no doubt in order to highlight the fantastic powers of the investigating detective, the murderer is a fiendishly clever maniac who has - until now - succeeded in keeping his true nature hidden.
		For me, the Barbara Vine novels succeed because they are based on the frightening premise that anyone can commit murder.
	www.johnsandoe.com /profile_Vine,_Barbar.htm (169 words)

	Barbara Vine - Spot Authors - Spot
		Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell, the bestselling crime novelist.
		She has written many novels, including The Lake of Darkness, The Killing Doll, The Tree of Hands, Live Flesh, Heartstones and The Veiled One.
		In 1997 she was created a life peer and took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh.
	books.funwithspot.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,12_1000032990,00.html (96 words)

	King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine, 0140156917, Lowest Book Price Finder
		I do prefer her writing as Barabara Vine rather than Ruth Rendell, it must be said.
		Vine introduces her characters one by one, and gradually fills in the spaces in between them, all the way up to the very last page, when the whole story falls so perfectly and neatly into place.
		Vine clearly did her homework before creating this fine book, so as to give the reader all the details one needs to be there, in the book.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0140156917 (431 words)

	STRAIGHT, BENT AND BARBARA VINE by Garry Disher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Barbara Vive...a conservator restoring a flood-damaged Venice crypt suspects that he's been implicated in a murder.
		Labels like 'crime writer' seem to exist to marginalise writers and what they write, and to acknowledge the existence of conventions.
		I can't deny that they employ some of the conventions of crime fiction, but I also hope they bring the genre in from the margins a little by demon- strating its artistic possibilities and complexities.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/authors/disherg/straightbentbv.html (300 words)

	Fatal Inversions: The Barbara Vine Information Web
		The first Vine novels displayed both names on the cover; more recent editions have removed such references, but this could be a reflection of the fact that the Vine name is now clearly established with the reading public.
		There would be nothing suprising to a psychologist in Barbara's choosing, as she asserts herself, to address readers in the first person.
		Unlike, say, Agatha Christie, who published romantic novels under the name 'Mary Westmacott' that varied dramatically from her normal murder mysteries, the Barbara Vine titles are not so dissimilar from Rendell's non-Wexford work (and even some of the later Wexford titles) as to appear to necessitate a change of identity.
	www.gusworld.com.au /books/vine/why.htm (926 words)

	The Minotaur - Barbara Vine - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Then, just as she was beginning to get some inkling of what was going on in the house, a stranger with a glamorously Bohemian aura moved into the village, and his presence set the Cosway family on a path to self-destruction.
		In Barbara Vine’s new book, her twelfth, a sympathetic middle-aged Swedish woman remembers her strange and horrifying stay at an old Essex house almost forty years before, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn’t quite reached rural England.
		Compelling in its depiction of the secrets within an apparently respectable family, The Minotaur is Barbara Vine on top form.
	www.penguinbooks.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0670915734,00.html (275 words)

	Mystery Guide - The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The author alternates the account of their renewed acquaintance with the earlier tale that (we hope) will explain much, including why there was a prison term at all.
		Vine doles out the early story with excruciating frugality, giving us just a little more to go on with each chapter.
		The ending itself is so surprising, and so seriously creepy, that even I was willing to forgive Vine for her early secrecy.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkVineStairs.html (457 words)

	Dining Santa Barbara .com - d'vine Restaurants
		Zaytoon from the Arabic word meaning olive is a welcome surprise to Santa Barbara as it is one of the only Middle Eastern restaurants in the area.
		Locate at the new Andalucia Hotel in downtown Santa Barbara 31 West offers dining intending to be a power breakfast and lunch spot and a destination restaurant in the evening.
		Coconut cream of rice for breakfast and wild caught salmon with coconut-chili sauce for dinner are some of the tasty selections.
	www.diningsantabarbara.com /listings.asp?name=d'vine&stype=1 (808 words)

	Book Reviews
		She chooses to write as Barbara Vine for an entirely different genre, the psychological mystery.
		As with all of Barbara Vine's books, I found myself totally involved in the mystery, and read on compulsively in the certain knowledge that she never leaves a loose thread.
		Every hint, every clue, is carefully seeded, and there for all to see, and in the end, every knot is neatly tied.
	www.parmaq.com /reviews/CrimeFiction.htm (686 words)

	Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was born in London and was educated in Essex where she worked from 1948 to 1952 as reporter and subeditor for newspapers.
		Rendell has won three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America - two for short story (1975, 1984) and one writing as Barbara Vine for the novel A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986).
		She has also won a Silver Dagger (1985) for The Tree of Hands and three Gold Daggers (1976, 1986, and 1987) for A Demon in My View, Live Flesh and A Fatal Inversion from the British Crime Writers Association.
	www.bastulli.com /Rendell/RENDELL.htm (253 words)

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