2000 Viking Paperback edition. 1st printing. Book is in good condition, spine has some creasing , front cover lower corner has faint fold. Nice book.

2nd printing of this 1998 Viking Paperback edition. Book is in very good condition.

When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?.

230 x 155 mm Antal sidor: 361. Kerstin Kvist visste inte vad som väntade henne när hon tog jobb hos familjen Cosway på Lydstep Old Hall - ett ståtligt men dystert gammalt hus på den engelska landsbygden. Det är på 1960-talet och den frigjorda svenskan Kerstin tycker sig hamna i en annan värld, en annan tid. Huset, praktiskt taget dolt under allt vildvin, har ett knarrande, knakande inre, fullt av mörka prång och låsta dörrar. Än besynnerligare är familjen. Den vresiga och överlägsna mrs Cosway styr sina tre vuxna ogifta döttrar med järnhand, en fjärde dotter kommer och går i huset med öppet förakt för de andra. Kerstin, som är sjuksköterska, har till uppgift att vara hjälp och sällskap åt den sorgsne, inåtvände sonen John, som helst tillbringar sin tid ensam i det labyrintiska biblioteket. "Det är galenskap i familjen", sammanfattar en av systrarna hans tillstånd. Men Kerstin blir alltmer upprörd när hon börjar ana att John medvetet hålls nerdrogad med onödigt starka mediciner, och hon bestämmer sig för att ta reda på varför.<br><br> När en långhårig bohemisk konstnär flyttar in i den lilla byn och blir föremål för systrarnas romantiska drömmar och innestängda sexualitet, trappas konflikterna i familjen upp och tragedin förefaller oundviklig. <br><br>Barbara Vine, en av Englands främsta spänningsförfattare, har med LÖGNERNAS LABYRINT skapat en suggestiv och psykologiskt kuslig berättelse om den åtrå och svartsjuka, de hemligheter och självbedrägerier som kan pyra under ytan i en utåt sett respektabel familj.

180 x 110 mm "Antal sidor: 455. På engelska. Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But, she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own."

180 x 110 mm "Antal sidor: 455. På engelska. Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But, she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own."

180 x 110 mm "Antal sidor: 455. På engelska. Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But, she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own."

180 x 110 mm "Antal sidor: 455. På engelska. Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But, she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own. "

180 x 110 mm "Antal sidor: 455. På engelska. Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But, she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own.

180 x 110 mm "Antal sidor: 455. På engelska. Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But, she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own.