A Dark-Adapted Eye written by Ruth Rendell as Barbara Vine performed by Harriet Walter on Cassette (Unabridged)

Like most families, they had their secrets... ...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets.

England in the '50s was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.