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Chosen by the Sunday Times' in 2015 as one of the 50 best crime and thriller novels of the last five years.
Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be
remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking
debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and
introduced the reader to 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. Very much
abreast of her times, the 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 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in
My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 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.
Ruth Rendell is a marvel, and in the latest Inspector Wexford
mystery she's on cracking form ...A total page-turner - and one of
Rendell's very, very best novels.
*A.N. Wilson*
Everything that is brilliant about Rendell's writing is present in
abundance in this novel: the vivid scene-setting, the knife-sharp
social observations, the tiny telling details that contribute so
powerfully to characterisation . . . The Vault is an excellent
addition to an incredibly impressive series.
*Sunday Express*
The Vault sees Rendell for the first time marry the two genres she
is master of: the psychological thriller and the police whodunit .
. There's not a clue out of place or a shoehorned plotline in
sight.
*Time Out*
Now Wexford has retired, Rendell has spotted an opportunity to
bring her two strands together in a superb novel called The Vault .
. . the author's sheer technical skill is evident as she
effortlessly brings the original story up to date. Only a novelist
whose characters feel intensely real to her could pull off such a
coup.
*Sunday Times*
The Vault, as a sort-of-sequel is a bold attempt to combine
Rendell's two chosen specialties: the police procedural and the
psychological thriller. No one hides the clues better than her; no
one else creates such a pervasive atmosphere of almost comic
disgust and dread.
*Evening Standard*
Ruth Rendell is a marvel, and in the latest Inspector Wexford
mystery she's on cracking form ...A total page-turner - and one of
Rendell's very, very best novels. -- A.N. Wilson
Everything that is brilliant about Rendell's writing is present in
abundance in this novel: the vivid scene-setting, the knife-sharp
social observations, the tiny telling details that contribute so
powerfully to characterisation . . . The Vault is an
excellent addition to an incredibly impressive series. * Sunday
Express *
The Vault sees Rendell for the first time marry the two
genres she is master of: the psychological thriller and the police
whodunit . . There's not a clue out of place or a shoehorned
plotline in sight. * Time Out *
Now Wexford has retired, Rendell has spotted an opportunity to
bring her two strands together in a superb novel called The
Vault . . . the author's sheer technical skill is evident as
she effortlessly brings the original story up to date. Only a
novelist whose characters feel intensely real to her could pull off
such a coup. * Sunday Times *
The Vault, as a sort-of-sequel is a bold attempt to combine
Rendell's two chosen specialties: the police procedural and the
psychological thriller. No one hides the clues better than her; no
one else creates such a pervasive atmosphere of almost comic
disgust and dread. * Evening Standard *
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