num_pages: 344
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.Bestselling 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 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.
language: English
title: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
titlecomplete: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
characters: Sarah Candless, Adam Foley, Jason Thague, Ursula Candless, Sam Fleming, Hope Candless, Gerald Candless
genres: British Literature, LGBT, Mystery, Suspense, Family, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 5540
places: Devon, England, London, England
publisher: Washington Square Press