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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; born 17 February 1930), is an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
Rendell’s best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, is the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell has also generated a separate brand of crime-fiction that explores deeply into the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme is developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine.
Rendell was born Ruth Barbara Grasemann in 1930, in South Woodford, London. Her parents were teachers. Her mother, Ebba Kruse, was born in Sweden and brought up in Denmark; her father, Arthur Grasemann, was English. Rendell was educated at the County High School for Girls in Loughton, Essex. After high school she became a feature writer for her local paper, the Chigwell Times. Even at an early age, making up stories was irresistible to Rendell. As a reporter, she visited a house that was rumoured to be haunted and invented the ghost of an old woman. The owners threatened to sue the newspaper for devaluing their home. Later, she reported on the local tennis club's annual dinner without attending, so missing the untimely death of the after-dinner speaker in mid-speech. She resigned before she could be fired.
Rendell met her husband, Don Rendell when she was working as a newswriter. They married when she was 20, and had a son, Simon, now a psychiatric social worker who lives in Colorado. The couple divorced in 1975, but remarried two years later.
Rendell wrote two unpublished novels before the 1964 publication of From Doon With Death, which was purchased for £75 by John Long; it was the first mystery to feature her enduring and popular detective Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford. The Monster in the Box, released in October 2009, was widely rumoured to be Wexford's last case. This was incorrect; however it was the final novel featuring Wexford as an employed policeman; in the novel that followed, The Vault, he has retired.
In addition to these police procedurals starring Wexford, Rendell has written psychological crime novels exploring such themes as romantic obsession, misperceived communication, the impact of chance and coincidence, and the humanity of the criminals involved. Among such books are A Judgement In Stone, The Face of Trespass, Live Flesh, Talking to Strange Men, The Killing Doll, Going Wrong and Adam and Eve and Pinch Me. Many credit her and close friend P. D. James for upgrading the entire genre of whodunit, shaping it more into a whydunit. Rendell's protagonists are often socially isolated, suffer from mental illness, and/or are otherwise disadvantaged; she explores the adverse impacts of their circumstances on these characters as well as on their victims.
Rendell created a third strand of writing with the publication in 1986 of A Dark-Adapted Eye under her pseudonym Barbara Vine (the name derives from her own middle name and her grandmother's maiden name). King Solomon's Carpet, A Fatal Inversion and Asta's Book (alternative US title, Anna's Book), among others, inhabit the same territory as her psychological crime novels while further developing themes of human misunderstandings and the unintended consequences of family secrets and hidden crimes. The author is noted for her elegant prose and sharp insights into the human mind, as well as her cogent plots and characters. Rendell injected the social changes of the last 40 years into her work, bringing awareness to such issues as domestic violence and the change in the status of women.
Lady Rendell has received many awards, including the Silver, Gold, and Cartier Diamond Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association, three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America, The Arts Council National Book Awards, and The Sunday Times Literary Award. A number of her works have been adapted for film or television. She is also a Patron of the charity Kids for Kids, helping children in rural areas of Darfur.
She was made a CBE in 1996 and a life peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk, in 1997. She sits in the House of Lords for Labour. In 1998 Rendell was named in a list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party.
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Inspector Wexford Series
Ruth Rendell - From Doon With Death (read by Terrence Hardiman)
Ruth Rendell - A New Lease Of Death (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - Wolf To The Slaughter (read by Robin Bailey)
Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die (read by Robin Bailey)
Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised (read by Christopher Ravenscroft)
Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then (read by Robin Bailey)
Ruth Rendell - Murder Being Once Done (read by Robin Bailey)
Ruth Rendell - Some Lie And Some Die (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - Shake Hands Forever (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - Death Notes (read by Davina Porter)
Ruth Rendell - Put On By Cunning (read by Charles Kay)
Ruth Rendell - The Speaker Of Mandarin (read by Michael Bryant)
Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness Of Ravens (read by Michael Bryant)
Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One (read by Robin Bailey)
Ruth Rendell - Kissing The Gunner's Daughter (read by Robin Bailey)
Ruth Rendell - Simisola (read by Christopher Ravenscroft)
Ruth Rendell - Road Rage (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - Harm Done (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - The Babes In The Wood (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - End In Tears (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - Not In The Flesh (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - The Monster In The Box (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - The Vault (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - No Man's Nightingale (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - Means Of Evil (read by Nigel Anthony)
Non-Series
Ruth Rendell - A Judgement In Stone (read by Carole Hayman)
Ruth Rendell - A Sight For Sore Eyes (read by David Threlfall)
Ruth Rendell - The Girl Next Door (read by Ric Jerrom)
Ruth Rendell - Thirteen Steps Down (read by Ric Jerrom)
Ruth Rendell - The Water's Lovely (read by Sian Thomas)
Ruth Rendell - The Crocodile Bird (read by Juliet Stevenson)
Ruth Rendell - Portobello (read by Ric Jerrom)
Ruth Rendell - The Rottweiller (read by Nigel Anthony)
Ruth Rendell - Tigerlily's Orchids (read by Nickolas Grace)
Ruth Rendell - The Saint Zita Society (read by Carole Boyd)
Ruth Rendell - The Tree Of Hands (read by Imelda Staunton)
Ruth Rendell - Dark Corners (read by Ric Jerrom)
Ruth Rendell - The Bridesmaid (read by William Gaminara)
Ruth Rendell - The Keys To The Street (read by Simon Russell Beale)
Ruth Rendell - A Demon In My View (read by Julian Glover)
Ruth Rendell - Live Flesh (read by Ian Holm)
Ruth Rendell - Master Of The Moor (read by Michael Bryant)
Ruth Rendell - The Lake Of Darkness (read by David Suchet)
Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll (read by Ric Jerrom)
Ruth Rendell - One Across, Two Down (read by Nicky Henson)
Ruth Rendell - Going Wrong (read by Dermot Crowley)
Ruth Rendell - To Fear A Painted Devil (read by Brian Cox)
Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me (read by Ric Jerrom)
Ruth Rendell - Talking To Strange Men (read by Christian Rodska)
Ruth Rendell - The Face Of Trespass (read by Ric Jerrom)
Ruth Rendell - Heartstones (read by Geraldine Somerville)
Ruth Rendell - Pirahna To Scurfy And Other Stoies (read by Lindsay Duncan)
Ruth Rendell - Vanity Dies Hard (read by Eva Haddon)
Ruth Rendell - The Secret House Of Death (read by Simon Russell Beale)
Ruth Rendell - The Copper Peacock And Other Stories (read by Penelope Keith)
Ruth Rendell - Blood Lines (read by Nigel Anthony)
As Barbara Vine
Ruth Rendell - Asta's Book (read by Harriet Walter)
Ruth Rendell - A Dark-Adapted Eye (read by Harriet Walter)
Ruth Rendell - A Fatal Inversion (read by William Gaminara)
Ruth Rendell - The Chimney-Sweepers Boy (read by Frances Barber)
Ruth Rendell - The Brimstone Wedding (read by Juliet Stevenson)
Ruth Rendell - The Minotaur (read by Sian Thomas)
Ruth Rendell - The Child's Child (read by Finty Williams)
Ruth Rendell - The House Of Stairs (read by Jane Asher)
Ruth Rendell - Grasshopper (read by Emilia Fox)
Ruth Rendell - King Solomon's Carpet (read by Michael Pennington)
Ruth Rendell - The Blood Doctor (read by Robert Powell)
Ruth Rendell - The Birthday Present (read by Paul Blake, Ruth Sillers)
Ruth Rendell - No Night Is Too Long (read by Alex Jennings, Samuel West, Shelley Thompson)
Ruth Rendell - Gallowglass (read by Dermot Crowley)
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