With Ruth Rendell, it’s all about control — or the lack of it. Obsession, loss of freedom, fierce urges, cluelessness, crumbling grips on reality: These are the enduring themes in her many novels, and ...

LONDON (AP) — Prolific crime and mystery writer Ruth Rendell, perhaps best known for her Chief Inspector Wexford novels, died Saturday, said her publisher, Penguin Random House. She was 85. The cause ...

The British novelist set shocking crimes in mundane settings — always adding a dash of social criticism. Critic Maureen Corrigan says she is... Remembering Ruth Rendell, Master Of Smart And Socially ...

Anyone who’s ever lived in a small apartment building full of quirky (usually a euphemism for “extremely irritating”) tenants has probably imagined one of them suddenly found dead or killing somebody ...

Including those she published as Barbara Vine, "Dark Corners" is Ruth Rendell's 66th novel — and her last. Rendell, who was made a life peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh in 1997, died in May of this ...

A cupboard full of alternative medication (or “medicaments,” as one character so quaintly and eerily puts it) looms large early in “Dark Corners,’’ Ruth Rendell’s posthumous novel. Carl Martin’s ...

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, by Ruth Rendell. Scribner, 272 pp., $26. Here is how the average mystery writer would open "The Girl Next Door": In greater London, a construction worker finds and turns over to ...

LONDON (AP) – Mystery writer Ruth Rendell, who brought psychological insight and social conscience to the classic British detective story, has died at the age of 85. Publisher Penguin Random House ...

When the news of Ruth Rendell's death broke last weekend, I searched for some of her novels on my mystery bookshelves. Rendell, 85, wrote more than 60 novels, so I should've been able to find a few, ...

The cause of death was not announced, but Rendell had suffered a serious stroke in January. She was one of Britain’s most popular crime novelists and authored dozens of books, including many written ...