Dark Corners
starred review Booklist "A worthy addition to the canon… Rendell once again exhumes the depths of obsession and traces each step in a sympathetic character's downward spiral. It has both a mythic element—all the trouble starts with a box that shouldn't have been opened—and a Victorian bent, in that it features an inheritance that dooms […]
The Girl Next Door
Washington Post “It's a pleasure to report that Ruth Rendell, at the age of 82 and after publishing more than 60 books, has given us yet another gem. A pleasure but not a surprise, since Rendell has for years, along with her friend P.D. James, been bringing new sophistication and psychological depth to the traditional […]
No Man's Nightingale : an Inspector Wexford Novel
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2013 In Rendell’s absorbing 24th Inspector Wexford novel (after 2011’s The Vault), the Kingsmarkham, England, sleuth tries to find out who strangled the Rev. Sarah Hussain in the vicarage of St. Peter’s Church, and why. The fact that Hussain was biracial and a single mother had galvanized bigots near and far, who resented […]
The St. Zita Society
Library Journal London's Hexam Place looks imperturbably classy, but it's not. The valet to Lord Studley is sleeping with both the lord's wife and his daughter, for instance, while a housekeeper wants to form a "society" of disgruntled servants and Dex the gardener is getting ghostly instructions on his cell phone that could lead to […]