Title: The House with Stairs - Rendell Ruth - book
Summary :
Suffering from an incurable illness, Elizabeth has taken refuge with her cousin Cosette, a wealthy widow surrounded by a swarm of sympathetic profiteers. It is there that she meets Bell, a disturbing young woman whose husband committed suicide long ago under unclear circumstances. Then Bell introduces into the house a certain Mark, supposedly her brother, to whom Cosette will feel an immediate attraction...
And we will enter, in the footsteps of an undisputed "queen of crime", into a dark intrigue, combining in a captivating and powerfully original way the legacy of Patricia Highsmith and that of Henry James.
A suspense of a beautiful scope, which mixes with a confounding virtuosity Victorian imagination and acquired psychoanalysis, anguish and psychological violence. Never the author of Vera is going to die and of The Summer of Trapellune had not gone so far among the cold monsters.
