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Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, was the author of many thrillers and murder mysteries. She was the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and 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 wrote mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She died in 2015.
A Judgement in Stone (Special Edition)
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
Shake Hands Forever
A Sleeping Life
A Sight for Sore Eyes
A Demon in My View
Murder Being Once Done
No More Dying Then
Some Lie and Some Die
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
Death Notes
The Tree of Hands

Books

A Judgement in Stone (Special Edition)
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
Shake Hands Forever
A Sleeping Life
A Sight for Sore Eyes
A Demon in My View
Murder Being Once Done
No More Dying Then
Some Lie and Some Die
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
Death Notes
The Tree of Hands

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