The Brimstone Wedding

The Brimstone Wedding
	First edition (UK)
Author	Barbara Vine
Language	English
Genre	Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher	Viking (UK); Harmony (US)
Publication date	28 March 1996
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print/Audiobook
Pages	320 (paperback)
ISBN	0-14-025280-0
OCLC	39328622
Preceded by	No Night Is Too Long
Followed by	The Chimney-sweeper's Boy

The Brimstone Wedding is a 1996 mystery novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine.^[1]^[2]

Plot summary

Jenny Warden, a care-assistant in a retirement home, is in a loveless marriage, and has a lover. She befriends Stella Newland, a resident with terminal cancer, and Stella gradually reveals the events of her life, which in some ways parallel Jenny's.^[1] A vanished film star and a secret house add to the intrigue until the terrible truth of the brimstone wedding is finally revealed.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Hirst, Christopher (15 February 1997). "Paperbacks - The Brimstone Wedding". The Independent. Retrieved 7 January 2012.^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Marilyn Stasio (4 February 1996). "COLLECTIONS>MYSTERY>Crime". New York Times. Retrieved 7 January 2012.

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[The_Independent_-_15Feb1997_-_Paperbacks_-_The_Brimstone_Wedding-1] Hirst, Christopher (15 February 1997). "Paperbacks - The Brimstone Wedding". The Independent. Retrieved 7 January 2012.^{[dead link]}

[NY_Times_-_04Feb1996_-_Crime-2] Marilyn Stasio (4 February 1996). "COLLECTIONS>MYSTERY>Crime". New York Times. Retrieved 7 January 2012.

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