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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.

Rendell's best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell also generated a separate brand of crime fiction that deeply explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine.

✵ 17. February 1930 – 2. May 2015  •  Other names Ruth Rendellová, Barbara Vine
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Works

A Judgement in Stone
One Across, Two Down
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Famous Ruth Rendell Quotes

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

Ruth Rendell book A Judgement in Stone

Source: A Judgement in Stone

“We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.”

Ruth Rendell One Across, Two Down

Source: One Across, Two Down

“I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.”

Ruth Rendell

“Without me, without me,
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long!”

Ruth Rendell

Source: No Night is Too Long

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