Ruth Rendell
                 
A Sleeping Life

Ruth Rendell is the author of A Sight for Sore Eyes, Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. Her most recent novel is Harm Done. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She is the also the recipient of three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Dagger Awards from England's Crime Writers Association. In 1997 she was named a life peer in the House of the Lords. She lives in England.