Asta's Book Author:Barbara Vine It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an ... more »unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.« less
Another well-written book by Rendell, with a modern day woman researching the diary of her ancestor...and finding the key to more than one mystery. Kept me going until the very end.