
Ruth Rendell
Author · 72 books
A.K.A. Barbara Vine Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also wrote under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, was an acclaimed English crime writer, known for her many psychological thrillers and murder mysteries and above all for Inspector Wexford.
Series
Books

The Face of Trespass
1974

The Thief
2005

A Judgement in Stone
1977

An Unkindness of Ravens
1985

The St. Zita Society
2012

A Sleeping Life
1978

To Fear a Painted Devil
1965

Tigerlily's Orchids
2010

From Doon With Death
1964

Live Flesh
1986

The Best Man to Die
1969

A Sight for Sore Eyes
1998

The Veiled One
1988

The Babes in the Wood
2002

No More Dying Then
1971

End in Tears
2005

Demon in My View
1976

Speaker of Mandarin
1983

Collected Stories 2
2008

Not in the Flesh
2007

The Keys to the Street
1996

The Bridesmaid
1989

I Shudder at Your Touch
1991

Piranha to Scurfy
2000

The Vault
2011

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
2001

One Across, Two Down
1971

Simisola
1994

Fever Tree and Other Stories
1982

Murder Being Once Done
1972

A New Lease of Death
1967

No Man's Nightingale
2013

The Secret House of Death
1968

The Monster in the Box
2009

The Lake of Darkness
1980

A Spot of Folly
Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem
2017

Talking to Strange Men
1987

Going Wrong
1990

A Guilty Thing Surprised
1970

The Girl Next Door
2014

Shake Hands Forever
1975

The Water's Lovely
2006

The Rottweiler
2003

Vanity Dies Hard
1966

Put On By Cunning / An Unkindness Of Ravens
2003

Master of the Moor
1982

The New Girl Friend and other Stories of Suspense
1985

The Copper Peacock and Other Stories
1980

Death Notes
1981

Some Lie and Some Die
1973

The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
2000

Ruth Rendell BBC Radio Drama Collection
2019

Dark Corners
2015

Tales from the Dead of Night
Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories
2013

Harm Done
1999

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
1991

Make Death Love ME
1979

L'Arbousier
1990

Heartstones
1987

Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998

Thirteen Steps Down
2004

Blood Lines
1995

The Tree of Hands
1984

Road Rage
1997

The Crocodile Bird
1993

The Fallen Curtain
1976

Portobello
2008

Wolf to the Slaughter
1967

COLLECTED STORIES
1989

Damas del crimen
1998

Mysterious Erotic Tales
1996

The Killing Doll
1984