Word: openess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways in which two sisters react to their mother's death and their father's potential remarriage. An explicit tribute to the quasi-supernatural stories of Henry James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Heartstones also makes full use of Rendell's own trademark chill, a slide-under-the-microsc ope dispassion that permits all sorts of behavior but forgives nothing. No other living mystery writer complains more openly about the burden of fans expecting her to bring back series characters when she has other pursuits in mind. In A Dark-Adapted Eye and Heartstones, Rendell does what Conan Doyle never...