No Night Is Too Long (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Praise for Barbara Vine's most recent novel, Anna's Book

"Absorbing, complexly crafted ... a brilliantly executed tour de force."

-- Wall Street Journal

"Anna's Book is a captivating story within a captivating story, a first-rate study of class, gender, and character, a courtroom drama and an un-put-downable page-turner."

-- Susan Isaacs, Washington Post Book World

"Louche and adventurous ... a mystery carefully laid out and ingeniously solved."

-- Village Voice Literary Supplement

Praise for Barbara Vine

"When Ruth Rendell, already the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world, launched a second byline, Barbara Vine, she actually stepped up her writing level."

-- Time

"This gifted author's ability to draw us so completely into her vividly realized, guilt-ridden worlds that they seem to meld, seamlessly, with our own is what makes her one of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world."

-- Joyce Carol-Oates, New York Times Book Review

"Simply put, [she] is one of the greatest writers ever."

-- Scott Turow

f Anna's Book -- who was hailed as "one of the finest practitioners of her craft in the English-speaking world" by the New York Times Book Review -- has written a relentlessly compelling tale of sexual obsession, mistaken identity, and murder.

Tim thought he'd gotten away with it. For months after the murder off the Alaskan coast he'd heard not a word. No policeman at his door asking questions. Nothing. And then the letters began. At first they seemed almost innocuous accounts of historical events. But a common theme emerged quickly. It was particularly germane to Tim, and it related directly to murder.

In No Night Is Too Long, Barbara Vine has written a tour de force, rich in characters and setting, a remarkable novel by an internationally celebrated master of her craft. To research the book, the author and her husband embarked on a boat trip from Seattle up the Alaskan coast. The stark beauty of that experience provides No Night Is Too Long with an extraordinarily