Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon In My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend'; and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Books by Ruth Rendell
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The Saint Zita Society
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/07/2012
Ruth Rendell's new psychological thriller is a gripping examination of society. And the darkness is never far away . . .
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The Vault
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/05/2012
A retired Wexford finds that his special skills are needed to help solve an old case
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Blood Lines (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A motive-less murder and several hit-and-runs perplex Detective Wexford.
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Burning End (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A normal family is secretly riven with cruelty and cold-heartedness.
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Catamount / The Wink (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Two stories: in one nature lures and lulls an over-curious tourist and in the other a woman is cast back to a troubled childhood simply by being winked at.
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Clothes (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A woman obsessed with buying clothes finally recognises she needs help when they nearly strangle her.
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Computer Seance / Fair Exchange (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Two short stories: a woman who claims to communicate with the dead makes the mistake of believing herself, and a tragic story of one life exchanged for another.
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Expectations / Lizzie's Lover / Shreds and Slivers / The Carer / Unacceptable Levels (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Five short stories: a man who has married his wife for money is murdered but his wife feels only relief; one man takes his poetry far, far too seriously; strange obsessions wreak unexpected havoc; a house sitter snooping for love letters unexpectedly finds dead woman; and a smoker can't quit smoking, nor can he quit scratching his mosquito bites.
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High Mysterious Union (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A simple cottage retreat is drastically altered by the weird charms of the local women.
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In All Honesty (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A woman dies suddenly after her will has been changed. Is it murder?
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Myth / The Astronomical Scarf / Walter's Leg (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Three short stories: one man is obsessed by a mysterious map - and its sinister influences; an enrapturing object seems to warp the destiny of its posessors; and they say time heals all wounds - but not in this case.
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Piranha to Scurfy (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A man's twisted obsession with reading results in a morbid blurring of fiction and fact.
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The Beach Butler / The Professional (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Two short stories: a dull holiday is transformed by conspiracy and lust; and a murder in a department store reveals shocking truths
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The Man Who Was The God of Love (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A husband murders his wife after she finds out he's not as clever as she thought.
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The Strawberry Tree (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Years after a brother vanished with his girlfriend on holiday, his sister is visited by two people claiming to be them.
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Tigerlily's Orchids
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/08/2011
The new psychological thriller from the reigning Queen of British Crime
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Some Lie And Some Die
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/01/2011
The eighth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format.
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Shake Hands For Ever
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/09/2010
The ninth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format.
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The Monster in the Box
by Ruth RendellPublished: 02/08/2010
The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel from the reigning Queen of British Crime.
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A Sleeping Life
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/07/2010
The tenth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format.
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Portobello
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/06/2010
Psychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell's work is outstanding.' The Times
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
by Ruth RendellPublished: 15/10/2009
The fifth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format to tie-in with the long awaited new Wexford prequel, Monster in the Box.
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A New Lease Of Death
by Ruth RendellPublished: 15/10/2009
The second in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format to tie-in with the long awaited new Wexford prequel, Monster in the Box.
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From Doon With Death
by Ruth RendellPublished: 15/10/2009
'One of the best novelists writing today.' P. D. James
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No More Dying Then
by Ruth RendellPublished: 15/10/2009
The sixth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format to tie-in with the long awaited new Wexford prequel, Monster in the Box.
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The Best Man To Die
by Ruth RendellPublished: 15/10/2009
The fourth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format to tie-in with the long awaited new Wexford prequel, Monster in the Box.
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Not In The Flesh
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/09/2008
Ruth Rendell's books are not only whodunits but whydunits, uncovering the motive roots of murder' Mail on Sunday
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The Water's Lovely
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/05/2007
Can you bury a secret so deep that the truth will never resurface?
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End In Tears
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/05/2006
The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel from the UK's best loved crime writer.
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Thirteen Steps Down
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/07/2005
Another cracking psychological novel from Ruth Rendell - out now in paperback!
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The Rottweiler
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/07/2004
Rendell returns to a darkly atmospheric London to explore how the lives of a small group of people from very mixed backgrounds are affected dramatically by a series of apparently motiveless murders.
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The Babes In The Wood
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/07/2003
For her nineteenth Chief Inspector Wexford mystery, Ruth Rendell tells a story that is as taut and atmospheric as anything she has ever written.
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Three Cases For Chief Inspector Wexford
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/07/2002
Three bestselling Wexford mysteries available in one volume for the first time.
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Adam And Eve And Pinch Me
by Ruth RendellPublished: 03/05/2002
'Rendell at her brilliant best' Simon Brett, Daily Mail
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Piranha To Scurfy And Other Stories
by Ruth RendellPublished: 04/05/2001
Nine stories and two novellas make up Ruth Rendell's latest collection.
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Harm Done
by Ruth RendellPublished: 02/06/2000
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Road Rage
by Ruth RendellPublished: 04/09/1998
Bestselling crime novel from The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time.''
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The Keys To The Street
by Ruth RendellPublished: 03/10/1997
'This time she has surpassed herself' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph
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The Killing Doll
by Ruth RendellPublished: 02/05/1995
An intense and disturbing novel from the UK's most loved crime writer
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Best Man to Die,An Unkindness of Ravens and The Veiled One
by Ruth RendellPublished: 31/12/1994
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The Secret House Of Death
by Ruth RendellPublished: 31/12/1994
Classic crime fiction from 'the most brilliant mystery novelist of our time'
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The Crocodile Bird
by Ruth RendellPublished: 01/11/1994
Classic crime fiction from 'the most brilliant mystery novelist of our time'
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Put On By Cunning
by Ruth RendellPublished: 05/07/1994
Classic Crime Fiction - 'The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time.'
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Talking To Strange Men
by Ruth RendellPublished: 05/07/1994
'A masterful tale of suspense' Library Journal
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The Bridesmaid
by Ruth RendellPublished: 05/07/1994
'Rendell is a diabolically subtle writer' The New York Times Book Review
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Kissing The Gunner's Daughter
by Ruth RendellPublished: 06/04/1993
'Classic Rendell' Sunday Express
