| The Brimstone Wedding | |
| Author: | Barbara Vine |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Crime / Mystery novel |
| Publisher: | Viking (UK) Harmony (US) |
| Release Date: | 28 March 1996 |
| Media Type: | Print/Audiobook |
| Pages: | 320 (paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0-14-025280-0 |
| Oclc: | 39328622 |
| Preceded By: | No Night Is Too Long |
| Followed By: | The Chimney-sweeper's Boy |
The Brimstone Wedding is a 1996 mystery novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Jenny Warden, a care-assistant in a retirement home, is in a loveless marriage, and has a lover. She befriends Stella Newland, a resident with terminal cancer, and Stella gradually reveals the events of her life, which in some ways parallel Jenny's.[1] A vanished film star and a secret house add to the intrigue until the terrible truth of the brimstone wedding is finally revealed.[2]