A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.

In the process of burying a beloved dog in the animal cemetery of Wyvis Hall, a beautiful Suffolk country house, the owner unearths the skeletons of a dead woman and baby.

The horrific discovery challenges the buried memories and guilt of a small group of young people who, 10 years earlier, spent the broiling summer of 1976 in a self-indulgently irresponsible idyll at Wyvis Hall, unexpectedly inherited by one of their number.

Slowly the facts emerge and the past catches up with them.

The series starred Jeremy Northam and Douglas Hodge.