{"product_id":"king-solomans-carpet","title":"King Solomans Carpet By Vine, Barbara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing Solomon''s Carpet \u003c\/i\u003eis a prize-winning crime classic from bestselling author Barbara Vine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The tension grows ... an overwhelming sense of foreboding ... when the unravelling takes place, it is brilliantly unexpected and original''  \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London''s Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDispossessed and outcast, those who come to inhabit Jarvis''s schoolhouse are gradually brought closer together in violent and unforeseen ways by London''s forbidding and dangerous Undergound . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I longed to know what would happen next. Towards the end the tension fairly gets you by the throat''  \u003ci\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Vine arouses a genuine fear that all that is normal is in danger of being lost''  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing Solomon''s Carpet\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including \u003ci\u003eA Fatal Inversion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKing Solomon''s Carpet\u003c\/i\u003e which both won the Crime Writers'' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: \u003ci\u003eA Dark Adapted Eye\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe House of Stairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGallowglass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsta''s Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Night Is Too Long\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Time of His Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Brimstone Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chimney Sweeper''s Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrasshopper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blood Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Minotaur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Birthday Present\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Child''s Child\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57692206694782,"sku":"NW9780141040431","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141040431.jpg?v=1784184213","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/king-solomans-carpet","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}