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The Blood Doctor

A Novel

A Novel

By Barbara Vine

By Barbara Vine

By Barbara Vine

By Barbara Vine

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Paperback $16.00

Nov 11, 2003 | ISBN 9781400032525

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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307428189

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    About The Blood Doctor

    Sometimes it’s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria’s favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancée. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated—and horrified—he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he’s done “monstrous, quite appalling things”?

    Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.

    About The Blood Doctor

    Sometimes it’s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria’s favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancée. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated—and horrified—he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he’s done “monstrous, quite appalling things”?

    Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.

    Also by Barbara Vine

    The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
    The Brimstone Wedding
    The Birthday Present
    The Minotaur
    Grasshopper
    See all books by Barbara Vine

    Also by Barbara Vine

    The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
    The Brimstone Wedding
    The Birthday Present
    The Minotaur
    Grasshopper
    See all books by Barbara Vine

    About Barbara Vine

    Barbara Vine is the author of such acclaimed novels as A Dark-Adapted Eye, Anna’s Book, Grasshopper, and The Blood Doctor. She has won many awards for literary accomplishment, including three Edgar Awards and four Gold Daggers.

    About Barbara Vine

    Barbara Vine is the author of such acclaimed novels as A Dark-Adapted Eye, Anna’s Book, Grasshopper, and The Blood Doctor. She has won many awards for literary accomplishment, including three Edgar Awards and four Gold Daggers.

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Nov 11, 2003 | 384 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400032525

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Dec 18, 2007 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780307428189

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    Praise

    "One of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world…. [The Blood Doctor is] densely plotted, psychologically twisted." –The New York Times Book Review

    "Combine[s] Edith Wharton’s laserlike psychological and sociological notations with the elegance and intelligence Arthur Conan Doyle brought to genre writing…. [She is] the best mystery writer of our time." – The Boston Globe

    “Vine is the subtlest of writers, and her book’s quiet demeanor simply adds more nuance to its exquisite creepiness.” –Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    "One of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world…. [The Blood Doctor is] densely plotted, psychologically twisted." –The New York Times Book Review

    “This latest book is her best… suspenseful and intellectually engaging.” –Chicago Tribune

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