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The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about ambition, obsession and bad blood An outstandingly original book Sunday Times The current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the first Lord Nanther, favoured physician to Queen Victoria, expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about ambition, obsession and bad blood An outstandingly original book Sunday Times The current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the first Lord Nanther, favoured physician to Queen Victoria, expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. What he uncovers begins to horrify him as he realizes that Nanther died a guilty man - carrying a horrific secret to the grave. Weaving effortlessly between past and present, public life and private life, The Blood Doctor is a superbly satisfying novel that will be adored by readers of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow. A magnificent novel Daily Mail Intriguing and absorbing and wholly satisfying Spectator Plotted with a jewellers intricacy and ominous to the final sentence Sunday Telegraph Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomons Carpet which both won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye ; The House of Stairs ; Gallowglass ; Astas Book ; No Night Is Too Long ; In the Time of His Prosperity ; The Brimstone Wedding ; The Chimney Sweepers Boy ; Grasshopper ; The Blood Doctor ; The Minotaur ; The Birthday Present and The Childs Child .
The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about ambition, obsession and bad blood An outstandingly original book Sunday Times The current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the first Lord Nanther, favoured physician to Queen Victoria, expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine - a crime masterpiece about ambition, obsession and bad blood An outstandingly original book Sunday Times The current Lord Nanther, experiencing the reform of the House of Lords, embarks on a biography of his great-grandfather, the... Read More