PRAISE FOR RUTH RENDELL AND

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

“Rendell terrorizes with the subtle authority of a cat burglar in the night.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“Whether she’s writing as herself or under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, Rendell is never boring. Adam and Eve is no exception.”

—USA Today

“A true page-turner, with a haunting ending that stayed with me long after I had read the final sentences.”

—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Rendell’s genius is to create characters so vivid they live beyond the frame of the novel. She pushes the ordinary to the point of the bizarre while remaining consistently believable.”

—Publishers Weekly

“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

“Madly absorbing . . . Rendell’s characters are fully drawn, and we become completely caught up in their struggles.”

—Booklist

“Ruth Rendell is, unequivocally, the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times.”

—Patricia Cornwell