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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Psychological thriller,
This review is from: The Birthday Present. Barbara Vine (Paperback)
Barbara Vine, a pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, never presents her readers with a mystery to solve or with characters easy to admire. In "The Birthday Present" she recreates the Thatcher era when the Tories were supreme and sex scandals dogged the Conservatives. One such scandal involves an MP, brother-in-law to one of the two narrators, who sets out to frighten his married mistress by having her kidnapped on the way to a planned assignation on her birthday. A fatal car accident, however, sets in motion startling changes in the lives of all who knew people killed on the road and has them careening towards each other. The other narrator, less dependable but essential to the development of the story, is the mistress's frequent "alibi," down on her luck but hopeful she can barter what she knows for money. I found the novel impossible to put down, driving me to an inevitably bloody denouement.
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The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine (Paperback - 2008)
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