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; 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.
If Ruth Rendell were not slotted into the category of writer of mystery novels, she would have won the Booker long ago * Books of the Year, Evening Standard * One of her darkest and best. * Literary Review * 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 * Ruth Rendell is back to her creepy best. * Daily Mail *