ruth rendell writing as barbara vine... Exquisite...
One of the best novels I've read, mystery or otherwise, in the last decade or more. Excellent on all counts!
Handsome, charming, faithless tom Cornish has murdered his long-time older lover. Or has he? The beautiful stranger who enticed Tom into an intensely erotic affair has vanished. Or has she? Tom must hunt the answeres. A Barbar Vine masterpiece of menace and shock.