Ruth Rendell: "The Queen of Crime"
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Ruth Rendell Bio
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, (born 17 February 1930), who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is a prolific English crime writer, acclaimed for her fine psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.
In addition to police procedurals starring her most iconic creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, Rendell () writes psychological crime novels exploring such themes as romantic obsession, misperceived communication, the impact of chance and coincidence, and the humanity of the criminals involved. Among such books are A Judgement In Stone, The Face of Trespass, Live...
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Rendell Quote
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.-
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Ruth Rendell Bibliography
List courtesy of Wikipedia
Novels
To Fear A Painted Devil (1965)
Vanity Dies Hard (1965)
The Secret House of Death (1968)
One Across, Two Down (1971)
The Face of Trespass (1974)
A Demon in My View (1976)
A Judgement In Stone (1977)
Make Death Love Me (1979)
The Lake of Darkness (1980)
Master of the Moor (1982)
The Killing Doll (1984)
The Tree of Hands (1984)
Live Flesh (1986)
Talking to Strange Men (1987)
The Bridesmaid (1989)
Going Wrong (1990)
The Crocodile Bird (1993)
The Keys to the Street (1996)
A Sight for Sore Eyes (1998)
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (2001)
The Rottweiler (2003)
Thirteen Steps Down (2004)
The Water's Lovely (2006)
Portobello (2008)
Inspector Wexford series
From Doon With Death (1964)
Wolf to the Slaughter (1967)
A New Lease of Death (1969)(Renamed Sins of the Fathers)
The Best Man to Die (1969)
A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970)
No More Dying Then (1971)
Murder Being Once Done (1972)
Some Lie And Some Die (1973)
Shake Hands Forever (1975)
A Sleeping Life (1979)
Put on By Cunning (1981)
The Speaker of Mandarin (1983)
An Unkindness of Ravens (1985)
The Veiled One (1988)
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (1992)
Simisola (1994)
Road Rage (1997)
Harm Done (1999)
The Babes in the Wood (2002)
End in Tears (2005)
Not in the Flesh (2007)

Written as Barbara Vine
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986)
A Fatal Inversion (1987)
The House of Stairs (1988)
Gallowglass (1990)
King Solomon's Carpet (1991)
Asta's Book (1993)
No Night is Too Long (1994)
The Brimstone Wedding (1995)
The Chimney-sweeper's Boy (1998)
Grasshopper (2000)
The Blood Doctor (2002)
The Minotaur (2005)
The Birthday Present (2008)
Novellas
Heartstones (1987)
The Thief (2006)
Short story collections
The Fallen Curtain (1976)
Means of Evil (1979) (five Inspector Wexford stories)
The Fever Tree (1982)
The New Girlfriend (1985)
The Copper Peacock (1991)
Blood Lines (1995)
Piranha to Scurfy (2000)
Collected Short Stories, Volume 1 (2006)
Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 (2008)
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- GrowWear GrowWear Jun 22, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
- She's in a class by herself.
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- chemrat chemrat Oct 25, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
- Good choice for a lens! I've read a bunch of these. Lensrolled at my group and lens on crime fiction. Best wishes and thanks for joining the group. Jim
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- LaraineRose LaraineRose Jul 27, 2008 @ 12:58 am
- Thanks for the scoop on this writer. I've never read one of her books. Now, I'm going to have to.
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