Asta's Book Author:Barbara Vine This work is set in 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to east London from Denmark with their two sons. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing her diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal, for they seem to hold the k... more »ey to an unsolved murder, to the quest for a missing child and to the enigma surrounding Asta's daughter, Swanny. 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.