Ruth Rendell

From Doon with Death

1998 · Ruth Rendell

From Doon with Death is the debut novel by Ruth Rendell, a classic in the crime genre. The story begins with the death of Margaret Parsons, a timid…

Wolf to the Slaughter

1987 · Ruth Rendell

Wolf to the Slaughter is a 1967 novel by Ruth Rendell, the third book to feature Chief Inspector Wexford. Anita Margolis has vanished, with no body…

A New Lease of Death

1995 · Ruth Rendell

The second book featuring Chief Inspector Wexford, involving the fifteen-year-old bludgeoning murder of an elderly woman, Mrs. Primero, originally…

The best man to die

1987 · Ruth Rendell

The fourth book in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, originally published in 1969, follows the investigation of a man and his daughter who die in a…

A guilty thing surprised

Year unknown · Ruth Rendell

Murder being once done

1996 · Ruth Rendell

In a vast, gloomy, overgrown London cemetery, a girl is found murdered. She has no name, no friends, no possessions, and no past. Chief Inspector…

Put on By Cunning

1981 · Ruth Rendell

Sir Manuel Camargue, a celebrated musician, is found floating face down in the lake near his English country house, ruled accidental death, but…

The speaker of Mandarin

1983 · Ruth Rendell

A 1983 novel by Ruth Rendell in the Wexford series, in which Chief Inspector Wexford visits China, haunted by an old woman with bound feet, while a…

An Unkindness of Ravens

1992 · Ruth Rendell

This novel by Ruth Rendell takes its title from the collective word for a group of ravens, birds that are not particularly predatory but also not…

Simisola

1995 · Ruth Rendell

Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham, and one of them is Dr. Raymond Akande, the town's new doctor. When his daughter, Melanie, goes…