Barbara Vine

About The Author

Barbara Vine is a pseudonym for Ruth Rendell (1930–2015), who won numerous awards, including three Edgars, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as three Gold Daggers, a Silver Dagger, and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writer’s Association. She was the author of numerous mystery thriller novels, including the Inspector Wexford series, Dark Corners, and The Child's Child.

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Books by Barbara Vine

The Child's Child

A Novel

By Barbara Vine

From three-time Edgar Award–winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious literary psychological thriller that’s a novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society’s taboos.

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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

By Barbara Vine

Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time.
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