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Dark Corners is a 2015 crime fiction novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, the last she wrote before her death that same year. [1] The novel has no dedication or epigraph. [2] The title of the book is taken from a phrase in the William Shakespeare play Measure for Measure. [3]
In a review in The Observer, it was noted that instead of focusing on the crime, the novel dealt with the lives of the now elderly people in the present. [6]In Marilyn Stasio's review for The New York Times, the novel's effective use of a split time frame was noted.
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. [ 1 ] Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford . [ 2 ]
[1] Kirkus Reviews commented in a positive review: "Rendell has been returning to the stripped-down dyspepsia of her earliest work, adding freak-show sociology to her velvet nightmares. Instead of exhausting the possibilities of her collection of plausible misfits, this group portrait leaves you longing for more."
[4] Another positive review came from Steve Donoghue of The Washington Post, who praised the novel's characters, writing: "Rendel presents us with [the characters] in all the scrupulous, almost forensic detail for which she’s famous. We get the aggressively supercilious building superintendent, the trio of flighty young girls, the brainless ...
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No Man's Nightingale is a novel by crime writer Ruth Rendell published in 2013, [1] [2] It featuring her recurring protagonist Inspector Wexford.The novel is the second in which Wexford has appeared after his retirement, and on this occasion is called in to consult on a crime by his ex-colleague and friend Mike Burden.
The Minotaur is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. It was first published in 2005. It was first published in 2005. External links