Summary
Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year in 1986, this is a chilling insight into the mind of the criminally insane, from the world’s greatest living crime writer. Perfect for fans of Rendell’s chilling psychological thrillers, including Thirteen Steps Down and Adam and Eve and Pinch Me.
Victor Jenner is a sociopath. After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor is released to a strange …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099502708 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099502704 |
| Author: | Ruth Rendell |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 1995 |
| Weight: | 1.47kg |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 110mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head
Powerfully claustrophobic * Guardian *
Ruth Rendell shows an unparalleled understanding of human evil. – John Mortimer * Sunday Times *
Compelling, disturbing and masterfully written. * The Times *
Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head * Maeve Binchy *
There are quite a few Ruth Rendells: the doyenne of the traditional English detective novel; the queen of the psychological thriller; the celebrated author of the literary thriller * Mail on Sunday *
Psychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell’s work is outstanding * The Times *
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.
With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Rendell’s Wexford books, in particular, often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for A Demon in My View (1976), a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh (1986), and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was published in October 2015.
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