Author

Ruth Rendell

38 books · 3 series · 1 reader

Ruth Rendell was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries, and she was best known for the Chief Inspector Wexford series, which began with From Doon with Death and includes No Man's Nightingale. Alongside it she wrote a run of unrelated crime novels about what drives criminals and their victims, and under the name Barbara Vine she took that interest further in a third series. Her novels are estimated to have sold 20 million copies. She died in 2015.

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All books

38 books

1965

  1. From Doon with Death

    Chief Inspector Wexford (1)

1967

  1. A New Lease of Death

    Standalone

  2. Wolf to the Slaughter

    Standalone

1970

  1. A Guilty Thing Surprised

    Standalone

1972

  1. Murder Being Once Done

    Standalone

1973

  1. Some Lie and Some Die

    Standalone

1975

  1. Shake Hands Forever

    Standalone

1977

  1. A Judgement in Stone

    Standalone

1978

  1. A Sleeping Life

    Standalone

1980

  1. The Lake of Darkness

    Standalone

1981

  1. Put on by Cunning

    Standalone

1983

  1. The Speaker of Mandarin

    Standalone

1985

  1. An Unkindness of Ravens

    Standalone

1986

  1. Live Flesh

    Standalone

1988

  1. The Veiled One

    Standalone

1989

  1. The Bridesmaid

    Standalone

  2. The Girl Next Door

    Standalone

1990

  1. The Babes in the Wood

    Standalone

1992

  1. Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

    Standalone

  2. Road Rage

    Standalone

1993

  1. Crocodile Bird

    Standalone

  2. The Water's Lovely

    Standalone

1994

  1. Simisola

    Standalone

  2. The Saint Zita Society

    Standalone

1998

  1. A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES

    Standalone

1999

  1. Harm Done

    Standalone

2001

  1. Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

    Standalone

2003

  1. The Rottweiler

    Standalone

  2. Thirteen Steps Down

    Standalone

2005

  1. End in Tears

    Standalone

2008

  1. Portobello

    Standalone

2009

  1. The Monster in the Box

    Standalone

2013

  1. No Mans Nightingale

    Inspector Wexford · Book 24

2015

  1. Dark Corners

    Standalone