Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend'; and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Rendell's psychological novels remain in a class of their own * Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph * Death seems cosy compared with the living Rendell describes... each story is like a condensed, polished novel * Daily Telegraph * It's impossible to read the terrors abroad in her shabby streetscapes without total emotional involvement * Sunday Times * Rendell's eerie capacity to comprehend disturbed criminal minds continues to astonish * The Times * Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head -- Maeve Binchy