The Brimstone Wedding
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| Author | Barbara Vine |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Crime / Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Viking |
| Released | March 28 1996 |
| Media type | Print/Audiobook |
| Pages | 320 (paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0140252800 |
| Preceded by | No Night is Too Long |
| Followed by | The Chimney-sweeper's Boy |
The Brimstone Wedding is a 1996 mystery novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine.
[edit] Plot summary
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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 woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's wife.
