| 词条 | The Minotaur (novel) |
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| name = The Minotaur | title_orig = | translator = | image = Theminotaurcover.jpg | caption = First edition (UK) | author = Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Crime / Mystery novel | publisher = Viking (UK) Shaye Areheart Books (US) | release_date = April 7, 2005 | media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback) & Audio CD | pages = 320 pp (hardcover) | isbn = 0-670-91573-4 | oclc= 57382246 | preceded_by = The Blood Doctor | followed_by = }} The Minotaur is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. It was first published in 2005. Plot summary{{Advert|section|date=August 2010}}Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. "There's madness in the family", offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John. External links
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