PUT ON BY CUNNINGRuth Rendell
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About the Author
Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for 1976s best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, The New Girlfriend; and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary Award, as well as the Crime Writers Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel, Monster in the Box, is out now in hardback.
OMNIBUSES: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES | COLLECTED STORIES 2 | WEXFORD: AN OMNIBUS | THE SECOND WEXFORD OMNIBUS | THE THIRD WEXFORD OMNIBUS | THE FOURTH WEXFORD OMNIBUS | THE FIFTH WEXFORD OMNIBUS | THREE CASES FOR CHIEF INSPECTOR WEXFORD | THE RUTH RENDELL OMNIBUS | THE SECOND RUTH RENDELL OMNIBUS | THE THIRD RUTH RENDELL OMNIBUS | CHIEF INSPECTOR WEXFORD NOVELS: FROM DOON WITH DEATH | A NEW LEASE OF DEATH | WOLF TO THE SLAUGHTER | THE BEST MAN TO DIE | A GUILTY THING SURPRISED | NO MORE DYING THEN | MURDER BEING ONCE DONE
ALSO BY RUTH RENDELL
| SOME LIE AND SOME DIE | SHAKE HANDS FOR EVER | A SLEEPING LIFE | PUT ON BY CUNNING | THE SPEAKER OF MANDARIN | AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS | THE VEILED ONE | KISSING THE GUNNERS DAUGHTER | SIMISOLA | ROAD RAGE | HARM DONE | THE BABES IN THE WOOD | END IN TEARS | NOT IN THE FLESH | THE MONSTER IN THE BOX | SHORT STORIES: THE FALLEN CURTAIN | MEANS OF EVIL | THE FEVER TREE | THE NEW GIRLFRIEND | THE COPPER PEACOCK | BLOOD LINES | PIRANHA TO SCURFY | NOVELLAS: HEARTSTONES | THE THIEF | NON-FICTION: RUTH RENDELLS SUFFOLK | RUTH RENDELLS ANTHOLOGY OF THE MURDEROUS MIND | NOVELS: TO FEAR A PAINTED DEVIL | VANITY DIES HARD | THE SECRET HOUSE OF DEATH | ONE ACROSS, TWO DOWN | THE FACE OF TRESPASS | A DEMON IN MY VIEW | A JUDGEMENT IN STONE | MAKE DEATH LOVE ME | THE LAKE OF DARKNESS | MASTER OF THE MOOR | THE KILLING DOLL | THE TREE OF HANDS | LIVE FLESH | TALKING TO STRANGE MEN | THE BRIDESMAID | GOING WRONG | THE CROCODILE BIRD | THE KEYS TO THE STREET | A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES | ADAM AND EVE AND PINCH ME | THE ROTTWEILER | THIRTEEN STEPS DOWN | THE WATERS LOVELY | PORTOBELLO
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 shes 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 youve 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. Theres a murder mystery, there are clues, there is a solution. Its 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. Shes 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... shes 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 Rendells mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched The Times
Ms Rendell exercises a grip as relentless as an anacondas
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
Wonderful at exploring the dark corners of the human mind, and the way private fantasies can clash and explode into terrifying violence Daily Mail
Superb plotting and psychological insight make this another Rendell gripper Woman & Home
An unusual detective story... intelligent, well written, with a surprising twist at the end Times Literary Supplement
Englands premier detective-thriller writer Spectator
Intricate and ingenious Yorkshire Post
Unguessable and brilliant Listener
The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world Boston Globe
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