Ruth Rendell, author portrait
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Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. She is also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She lives in England.
A Judgement in Stone (Special Edition)
The Vinegar Mother
Master of the Moor
Speaker of Mandarin
Simisola
Road Rage
The Keys to the Street
Portobello
Not in the Flesh
Wolf to the Slaughter
The Water's Lovely
From Doon with Death
End in Tears
13 Steps Down
The Rottweiler
The Babes in the Wood
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Piranha to Scurfy
One Across, Two Down
The Fallen Curtain
The Lake of Darkness
Harm Done
A Sleeping Life
Shake Hands Forever
A Sight for Sore Eyes
A Demon in My View
No More Dying Then
Some Lie and Some Die
Murder Being Once Done
The Crocodile Bird
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Veiled One
To Fear a Painted Devil
A Guilty Thing Surprised
The Best Man to Die
Sins of the Fathers

Books

A Judgement in Stone (Special Edition)
The Vinegar Mother
Master of the Moor
Speaker of Mandarin
Simisola
Road Rage
The Keys to the Street
Portobello
Not in the Flesh
Wolf to the Slaughter
The Water's Lovely
From Doon with Death
End in Tears
13 Steps Down
The Rottweiler
The Babes in the Wood
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Piranha to Scurfy
One Across, Two Down
The Fallen Curtain
The Lake of Darkness
Harm Done
A Sleeping Life
Shake Hands Forever
A Sight for Sore Eyes
A Demon in My View
No More Dying Then
Some Lie and Some Die
Murder Being Once Done
The Crocodile Bird
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Veiled One
To Fear a Painted Devil
A Guilty Thing Surprised
The Best Man to Die
Sins of the Fathers

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