Ruth Rendell

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Standard Name: Rendell, Ruth
Birth Name: Ruth Barbara Graseman
Married Name: Ruth Barbara Rendell
Titled: Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh
Pseudonym: Barbara Vine
RR established herself as a leading crime novelist of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To the intricacies of plot characteristic of the genre, she adds a capacity to scare her readers, and a sophisticated focus on the psychological and emotional aspects of criminal minds and the minds of those committed to the notion of justice. She is also attentive to contemporary English life and keenly interested in books and language, which feature importantly in her fictional worlds. She published sixty novels and was translated into twenty-five languages.
Colour photograph of Ruth Rendell, seated at a table with a microphone and a glass of water. She is wearing a fawn jacket, white shirt, and brown trousers. Her is short and blonde.

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Texts

Rendell, Ruth. The Tree of Hands. Hutchinson, 1984.
Rendell, Ruth. The Vault. Cornerstone Hutchinson, 2011.
Rendell, Ruth. The Water’s Lovely. Hutchinson, 2006.
Rendell, Ruth. Thirteen Steps Down. Hutchinson, 2004.
Rendell, Ruth. Thirteen Steps Down. Arrow Books, 2005.
Rendell, Ruth. To Fear a Painted Devil. John Long, 1965.
Rendell, Ruth. Vanity Dies Hard. John Long, 1966.
Rendell, Ruth. Wolf to the Slaughter. John Long, 1967.
Rendell, Ruth. Yes, Prime Minister. Editors Lynn, Jonathan and Antony Jay, BBC, 1987, 2 vols.