Vine, Barbara. The Minotaur.VINE, Barbara. The Minotaur. Read by Rosalyn Landor. 10 cds. 12.25 hrs. Books on Tape. 2006/2006. 1-4159-2207-1. $79.20. Vinyl; plot notes. SA Under her own name, Rendell is famous for her police procedurals police procedural n. A story or drama about the investigation of a crime by the police. police procedural Noun a novel, film, or television drama that deals with police work , but as Vine she is an acknowledged master of the psychological thriller Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre. However, this genre often incorporates elements from the mystery genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre. . A crime will occur with relentless inevitability, but her concern is far less the event than the curious conjunction of personality and circumstance that makes it come about in the first place. Every detail in a Vine novel is relevant, and whenever her characters subtly remind us of one of them, it is as if a screw within a timepiece is tightened another fraction. The end result is as elegant and as precise as a Rolex. In this novel, a chance encounter causes Kirsten Kvist to recall events of 35 years earlier when she was hired to serve as nurse to a schizophrenic schiz·o·phren·ic adj. Of, relating to, or affected by schizophrenia. n. One who is affected with schizophrenia. homebound home·bound adj. Restricted or confined to home, as of an invalid. patient in a small English village English Villages are language teaching institutions which aim to create a language immersion environment for students of English in their own country. The concept is run as a commercial venture in Spain and Italy. The one in Korea is quasi-governmental (see below). . As she records in her diary the competing personal dynamics of the variously dysfunctional Cosway family members, she establishes to her horror and the readers' that nothing is what it seems and that multiple tragedies are unavoidable. Landor differentiates her characters and keeps her general tone as low-keyed as Kirsten's own, leaving all of the drama, appropriately, to Vine. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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