Ruth Rendell, crime writer, dies aged 85

[Bosonic]

Source: The Guardian

Ruth Rendell, one of Britain’s best-loved and most admired authors, who delighted fans for decades with her dark, intricately plotted crime novels, has died at the age of 85.

Rendell had been admitted to hospital after a serious stroke in January. Her publisher Hutchinson announced the death of the Inspector Wexford creator on Saturday.

“It is with great sadness that the family of author Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, announce that she passed away in London at 8am on Saturday 2 May, aged 85. The family have requested privacy at this time,” the statement said.

Rendell wrote more than 60 novels, including the psychological thrillers she wrote as Barbara Vine, with her debut, From Doon with Death, introducing the world to Wexford in 1964.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/02/ruth-rendell-writer-dies-aged-85

[asjr]

1. Rendell gave me years of entertainment. I loved

all her books.

[madfloridian]

2. Read every one of the Inspector Wexford books.

And quite a few of her standalone novels. Wexford seemed like an old friend.

[Ron Obvious]

3. Damn

So shortly after lost that other titan of the mystery genre, PD James, too.

I loved Wexford and Burden, but I have to be honest and say that the last books in that series were below her usual standards.

IMO, her best work are the Barbara Vine novels, especially Dark Adapted Eye and Fatal Inversion.

R.I.P. Ruth Rendell, and thanks!

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Ruth...

[XemaSab]

5. Oh, dear

[freeplessinseattle]

6. oh, one of my favorite authors

Sad day

[question everything]

7. She also wrote as Barbara Vine

which were really creepy.

I liked her first one - A Dark Adapted Eye. The first sentence was an attention grabber: only one instance when we know when a person will die - his time of execution.

But her next book - don't remember whether it was a Fatal Inversion or A House of Stairs - was so disturbing to me that I physically removed it from my bookcase - donated to the library, or something.

R.I.P Ruth Rendell. (Barbara Vine).

[ananda]

8. I watched the British Wexford series and some other shows of her work.

So effin creepy...

The creep effect is long lasting too. I still feel it.