'A classic' The Times
Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels. With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart. Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, is scheduled for publication in October 2015
One of her masterpieces.
*Telegraph*
Rendell's psychological insights are so absorbing, it's easy to
forget what a superb plotter she is
*The Times*
Ruth Rendell is not only the finest crime novelist there is, but
one of the finest novelists writing in the English language
*Scotsman*
The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time - mesmerizing
*Patricia Cornwell*
Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime
writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane,
commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of
desire and greed, obsession and fear
*Sunday Times*
One of her masterpieces. -- Jake Kerridge * Telegraph *
Rendell's psychological insights are so absorbing, it's easy to
forget what a superb plotter she is * The Times *
Ruth Rendell is not only the finest crime novelist there is, but
one of the finest novelists writing in the English language *
Scotsman *
The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time - mesmerizing --
Patricia Cornwell
Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime
writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane,
commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of
desire and greed, obsession and fear * Sunday Times *
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