Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell (born February 17, 1930 in South Woodford, London) is a member of the House of Lords, holds a Life Peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh, and a 1996 CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).  Rendell died on May 2, 2015.



Non-Series Books:

To Fear a Painted Devil - 1965
Vanity Dies Hard - 1965
The Secret House of Death - 1968
One Across, Two Down - 1971
The Face of Trespass - 1974
A Demon in My View - 1976
A Judgement in Stone - 1977
Make Death Love Me - 1979
The Lake of Darkness - 1980
Master of the Moor - 1982
The Killing Doll - 1984
The Tree of Hands - 1984
Live Flesh - 1986
Talking to Strange Men - 1987
The Bridesmaid - 1989
Going Wrong - 1990
The Crocodile Bird - 1993
The Keys to the Street - 1996
A Sight for Sore Eyes - 1998
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me - 2001
The Rottweiler - 2003
Thirteen Steps Down - 2004
The Water's Lovely - 2006
Portobello - 2008
Tigerlily's Orchids - 2010
The St. Zita Society - 2012
The Girl Next Door - 2014
Dark Corners - 2015

Short Story Collections:

The Fallen Curtain - 1976
Means of Evil and Other Stories - 1979
The Fever Tree - 1982
The New Girlfriend - 1985
The Copper Peacock - 1991
Blood Lines - 1995
Piranah to Scurfy - 2000
Collected Short Stories, Volume 1 - 2006
Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 - 2008


Novellas:

Heartstones - 1987
The Thief - 2006


The Inspector Wexford Series:

From Doon with Death - 1964
The Sins of the Fathers (A New Lease on Death is UK title) - 1967
Wolf to the Slaughter - 1967
The Best Man to Die - 1969
A Guilty Thing Surprised - 1970
No More Dying Then - 1971
Murder Being Once Done - 1972
Some Lie and Some Die - 1973
Shake Hands Forever - 1975
A Sleeping Life - 1979
Death Notes (Put on by Cunning is UK title) - 1981
The Speaker of Mandarin - 1983
An Unkindness of Ravens - 1985
The Veiled One - 1988
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter - 1991
Simisola - 1994
Road Rage - 1997
Harm Done - 1999
The Babes in the Wood - 2002
End in Tears - 2005
Not in the Flesh - 2007
The Monster in the Box - 2009
The Vault - 2011
No Man's Nightingale - 2013


Written as Barbara Vine:

A Dark-Adapted Eye - 1986
A Fatal Inversion - 1987
The House of Stairs - 1988
Gallowglass - 1990
King Solomon's Carpet - 1991
Asta's Book - 1993
No Night Is too Long - 1994
The Brimstone Wedding - 1995
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - 1998
Grasshopper - 2000
The Blood Doctor - 2002
The Minotaur - 2005
The Birthday Present - 2008
The Child's Child - 2012


Children's Books:
Archie and Archie - 2013


Non-Fiction:

Ruth Rendell's Suffolk - 1989
Undermining the Central Line: giving government back to the people (with Colin Ward) - 1989
The Reason Why: An Anthology of the Murderous Mind - 1995

Books Reviewed on Book Chase are linked in "red."




Ruth Rendell Dead at 85