The government announced Victoria's former chief psychiatrist Professor Ruth Vine would lead the review, saying she would bring a "truly independent mind" to the task. A government-mandated pause ...

Vine (the pseudonymous Ruth Rendell) offers a lyrical, leisurely paced psychological thriller that teems with deftly drawn characters who inhabit a dark world centered in the London Underground.

Jarvis, Tom and Alice are all drawn to be near the London Underground - but for very different reasons. By Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine.