A brilliantly dark and sinister novel of psychological suspense by Ruth Rendell, 'unequivocally the most brilliant crime-writer of our time' (Patricia Cornwell).
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.
Her absence is keenly felt. But we do have this mesmeric book . . .
It’s a felicitous last hurrah for Rendell
*Independent, Books of the Year*
It enjoyably and honourably concludes Rendell's six decades of
exploring the death force that, as her last book demonstrates, may
be triggered in unexpected people and places. - Mark Lawson
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
Dark Corners is written in a deceptively simple manner, and at
times it reads like a twisted fairytale. It leaves an uneasiness
behind like a dark stain on the consciousness . . . The violence of
Dark Corners is the violence that stems from the mundane and the
ordinary, and it is all the more frightening because of that.
*Independent*
Everything that makes Rendell's work so memorable - gothic but
believable people and plots, simple yet vivid prose, peerlessly
rendered settings, and fear and despair as the twin ‘parents’ of
violence - is in evidence here.
*Publishers Weekly*
Another of Rendell’s penetrating studies of ordinary people trapped
in extraordinary circumstances . . . her countless admirers will
seize on it with delight.
*Literary Review*
Cunningly wrought . . . a triumph . . . the ending is perfect – a
fitting full stop at the end of a great career.
*Mail on Sunday*
From the impressive variety of tones and styles to which she had
access as a writer, Rendell chose for Dark Corners black comedy
that echoes Muriel Spark . . . [Dark Corners] enjoyably and
honourably concludes Rendell's six decades of exploring the death
force that, as her last book demonstrates, may be triggered in
unexpected people and places.
*Guardian*
The late Ruth Rendell put a permanent stamp on crime fiction with
65 novels of screw-twisting suspense, written under both her own
name and the pseudonym Barbara Vine. The posthumously published
DARK CORNERS is a worthy final entry in her body of work
*The Wall Street Journal*
It’s a Rendell ‘stand-alone’ – a pitch-black thriller.
*The Times*
A gripping story . . . You will feel the authentic Rendell prickle
of fear as you realise how easily a mis-step could plunge you into
a situation like [the protagonist’s].
*Daily Telegraph*
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