The Brimstone Wedding

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

Last updated January 19, 2026

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

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]

References

1 2 Hirst, Christopher (15 February 1997). "Paperbacks - The Brimstone Wedding". The Independent . Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
1 2 Marilyn Stasio (4 February 1996). "COLLECTIONS>MYSTERY>Crime". New York Times . Retrieved 7 January 2012.
↑ "The Brimstone Wedding" . Booklist . 1 October 1995. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
↑ "The Brimstone Wedding". Kirkus Reviews . 1 October 1995. Retrieved 12 August 2024.

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[The_Independent_-_15Feb1997_-_Paperbacks_-_The_Brimstone_Wedding-1] 1 2 Hirst, Christopher (15 February 1997). "Paperbacks - The Brimstone Wedding". The Independent . Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2012.

[NY_Times_-_04Feb1996_-_Crime-2] 1 2 Marilyn Stasio (4 February 1996). "COLLECTIONS>MYSTERY>Crime". New York Times . Retrieved 7 January 2012.

[3] "The Brimstone Wedding" . Booklist . 1 October 1995. Retrieved 12 August 2024.

[4] "The Brimstone Wedding". Kirkus Reviews . 1 October 1995. Retrieved 12 August 2024.

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v t e Ruth Rendell
Inspector Wexford novels	From Doon with Death A New Lease of Death Wolf to the Slaughter The Best Man to Die A Guilty Thing Surprised No More Dying Then Murder Being Once Done Some Lie and Some Die Shake Hands Forever A Sleeping Life Put on By Cunning The Speaker of Mandarin An Unkindness of Ravens The Veiled One Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Simisola Road Rage Harm Done The Babes in the Wood End in Tears Not in the Flesh The Monster in the Box The Vault No Man's Nightingale
Stand-alone novels	To Fear a Painted Devil Vanity Dies Hard The Secret House of Death One Across, Two Down The Face of Trespass A Demon in My View A Judgement in Stone Make Death Love Me The Lake of Darkness Master of the Moor The Killing Doll The Tree of Hands Live Flesh Heartstones Talking to Strange Men The Bridesmaid Going Wrong The Crocodile Bird The Keys to the Street A Sight for Sore Eyes Adam and Eve and Pinch Me The Rottweiler Thirteen Steps Down The Thief The Water's Lovely Portobello Tigerlily's Orchids The Saint Zita Society The Girl Next Door Dark Corners
As Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye A Fatal Inversion The House of Stairs Gallowglass King Solomon's Carpet Asta's Book No Night is Too Long The Brimstone Wedding The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Grasshopper The Blood Doctor The Minotaur The Birthday Present The Child's Child
Short story collections	The Fallen Curtain Means of Evil The Fever Tree The New Girlfriend The Copper Peacock Blood Lines Piranha to Scurfy A Spot of Folly
TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries The Barbara Vine Mysteries