Rendell Ruth. Put on by Cunning

Praise for Ruth Rendell:
‘One of the foremost of our writers of crime fiction’
PD James
‘The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time’
Patricia Cornwell
‘Through the quality of her writing she’s raised the game of the crime novel in this country’ Peter James
‘Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world’ Ian Rankin
‘She can make a scene between two women sitting in a cafe as violent as anything you’ve seen between a couple of guys with baseball bats’ Mark Billingham
‘Ruth Rendell, like all the great creators of crime fiction,
keeps her pact with the reader. There’s a murder mystery, there are clues, there is a solution. It’s a very satisfying read’ Gyles Brandreth
‘As a page-turner there are few who can match Ruth’ Colin Dexter
‘She deals quite seamlessly with social issues. She’s got a real grip on what makes people do things’ Val McDermid
‘She gets into the mind not only of the hero; she gets into the mind of the villain’ Jeffery Deaver
‘Very good at recording social and political change...she’s bang up to the minute’ Andrew Thomas
‘Rendell is a great storyteller who knows how to make sure that the reader has to turn the pages out of a desperate
need to find out what is going to happen next’
John Mortimer, Sunday Times
‘Plenty of style and many a wry reflection on the human condition...’ Frances Fyfield, Daily Express
‘The inspiration never seems to flag and the quality of the
craftsmanship remains as high as ever’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Ruth Rendell’s mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched’ The Times
‘Ms Rendell exercises a grip as relentless as an anaconda’s’
Guardian
‘Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear’
Sunday Times
‘A brilliant piece of exhumation’ Observer
‘Cleverly plotted and conspicuously well written’
Daily Telegraph