A Fatal Inversion

11 hrs. 18 min.

Language Russian

Author Barbara Vine

Narrator Natalia Gracheva

Description

As a teenager, Elizabeth left her father’s home and moved in with her distant relative Cosette, a rich widow living nearby. Cosette, with her gentle and accommodating nature, loved meeting different people and always wanted everyone to live in her large estate, Gart Manor—also known as “The House with the Staircase.” And so it happened: the widow’s friends gathered together, brought their own friends, and eventually, under Cosette’s roof, settled a motley and cheerful company. But among them there was one person who came here not by chance. Deep down, he nurtured a monstrous plan and used monstrous means to carry it out. Many years passed, but Elizabeth can’t forget the horror of those days. No, he didn’t vanish into the past—bit by bit, that horror moved into her present…