The Brimstone Wedding
Author: Barbara Vine
Desc: Jenny's marriage is loveless and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home where she is especially fond of Stella a gracious dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband . . . Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love.