The Brimstone Wedding

The Brimstone Wedding is a 1996 mystery novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine.^[1][2][3][4]

The Brimstone Wedding

First edition (UK)
Author	Barbara Vine
Language	English
Genre	Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher	Viking (UK) Harmony (US)
Publication date	28 March 1996
Publication place	United Kingdom
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

Plot summary

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]