“Rendell's clear, shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional.”

—The New Yorker

“Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint, with such a literate voice and an insightful mind, that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime.”

—Los Angeles Times

“If there were a craft guild for writers, I'd apprentice myself to Ruth Rendell.”

— Sue Grafton

“The Wexford books clearly display Rendell's great mastery of storytelling at its best.”

—The Sunday Telegraph

“No one writes with more devastating accuracy about the world we live and commit sin in today…. She is one of our most
important novelists.”

—John Mortimer

“Ruth Rendell is, unequivocally, the most brilliant mystery novelist of our time. Her stories are a lesson in human nature as capable of the most exotic love as it is of the cruelest murder. She does not avert her gaze and magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing.”

—Patricia Cornwell

“Like Wexford, Rendell's vision of human behavior is intensely moral and often uncompromising. In an age of victimhood, this is as bracing as it is courageous.”

—Sunday Times (London)

“Ruth Rendell is one of the best crime novelists working today.”

—Los Angeles Daily News

“Ruth Rendell has written some of the best novels of twentieth century crime fiction.”

—Frances Fyfield

“Ruth Rendell is surely one of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language. She is a writer whose work should be read by anyone who enjoys either brilliant mystery—or distinguished literature.”

— Scott Turow