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Asta's Book by Barbara, Vine is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An “obsessively readable” mystery from the New York Times– bestselling author of Dark Corners about a century-old diary that holds clues to a murder ( The Sunday Telegraph ). Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn’t help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary—and she continues to do so until 1967. Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child. A modern masterpiece by the Edgar Award–winning author of the Inspector Wexford Mysteries, and an excellent choice for readers of P. D. James, Ian Rankin, or Scott Turow, Asta’s Book is at once a crime story, a historical novel, and a psychological portrait told through the diary itself and through Ann, who is bent on unlocking the journal’s excised mystery.

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Barbara, Vine
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9781453214954
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, True Crime, Literary Fiction
Rating
4 / 5 (27 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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