{"product_id":"the-chimney-sweepers-boy-9781416531937","title":"The Chimney Sweeper's Boy","description":"Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time.\u003cbr\u003eBestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart: a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself -- and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Vine is a pseudonym for Ruth Rendell (1930-2015), who won numerous awards, including three Edgars, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as three Gold Daggers, a Silver Dagger, and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England's prestigious Crime Writer's Association. She was the author of numerous mystery thriller novels, including the Inspector Wexford series, \u003ci\u003eDark Corners\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Child's Child. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415093416210,"sku":"9781416531937","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_831fa446-0d67-49c8-ac3a-2464a4e78cf5.jpg?v=1729393978","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-chimney-sweepers-boy-9781416531937","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}