Description
In a crumbling schoolhouse perched above a London Underground line, Jarvis Stringer lives in isolation—quietly compiling an obsessive, secret history of the Tube that seems to mirror the lives of those who drift into his orbit. When a runaway young mother, a streetwise busker, a truant thrill-seeker, and a shadowy outsider with a buried past all end up sharing the same precarious space, their uneasy connections begin to tighten into something darker and more dangerous. As the Underground’s hidden rhythms draw them closer, secrets surface, loyalties fracture, and violence arrives with unsettling inevitability. Barbara Vine—writing with the razor-sharp psychological insight of Ruth Rendell—delivers a tense, atmospheric crime story where foreboding and human vulnerability collide, exploring themes of obsession, displacement, and the cost of buried truths.
Available Editions
ebook
Penguin Group UK
Published Jan 1, 2009
426 pages
ISBN: 9780141932453
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine.