Barbara vine a fatal inversion7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() I thought the characterisation was good and the setting excellent – a grand old house, out in the Suffolk countryside surrounded by dark, dense and menacing pine woods, ‘the kind of place you saw in story-book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping.’ They are reduced to selling his uncle’s silver for food and drugs and after Zosie’s arrival to stealing to support themselves. ![]() Shiva and his friend Vivian had thought they were joining a commune whereas with no money Adam was just keen to get others to contribute. It’s a complicated plot told in flashbacks, seen from mainly three of the characters’ viewpoints – Adam, his friend, Rufus, a medical student, and Shiva, a British Indian. The police are seeking previous owners of the Hall to identify the bodies. ![]() Then ten years later the current owners, whilst burying their pet dog in the animal cemetery in the woods, find the bones of a young woman and a baby. ![]() Something tragic and terrible happened which led to them leaving the house and eventually Adam sold it. He stayed there for a while that hot summer with a group of young people. In 1976 Adam, a university student of 19 inherited Wyvis Hall from his great-uncle. Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet series moves towards the end of the alphabet and has now reached the letter ‘V’.Ī Fatal Inversion was first published in 1987 and was reissued in 2009 by Penguin Books.Īlthough about a group of not very likeable characters I was drawn into the world of this mystery. ![]()
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