Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015

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Ruth Rendell is known for her Inspector Wexford mysteries and for psychological suspense novels. Elegant, complex prose distinguishes her character-driven fiction in both genres, which are populated with socially alienated, inarticulate misfits. The Wexford mysteries follow the traditions of police procedurals, but Wexford operates by intuition as much as by procedure. The non-series novels are perhaps darker, since secondary characters do not provide a shift of focus to more normal lives, and their obsessed, dysfunctional protagonists have disastrous ends. Rendell, who also wrote under the name Barbara Vine, died in 2015. Start with: Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Wexford mysteries); A Sight for Sore Eyes (psychological suspense)
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Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015
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1930-2015
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Ruth Rendell is known for her Inspector Wexford mysteries and for psychological suspense novels. Elegant, complex prose distinguishes her character-driven fiction in both genres, which are populated with socially alienated, inarticulate misfits. The Wexford mysteries follow the traditions of police procedurals, but Wexford operates by intuition as much as by procedure. The non-series novels are perhaps darker, since secondary characters do not provide a shift of focus to more normal lives, and their obsessed, dysfunctional protagonists have disastrous ends. Rendell, who also wrote under the name Barbara Vine, died in 2015. Start with: Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Wexford mysteries); A Sight for Sore Eyes (psychological suspense)
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