Ruth Rendell



Ruth Barbara Rendell, born Ruth Grassmann , ( London , February 171930 ) is a Britishwriter of psychologicalcrime novels . She has the nickname "Queen of Crime" and writes it under the pseudonymBarbara Vine .

She worked as a journalist before in 1964 wrote her first novel. She is especially renowned for its language and deeply detailed characters. Also in her books to see. Social changes So she spends her later books focus on the changing social status of women and domestic violence .

For her work she has received many awards. In 1997 she received the non-inheritable title Baroness . She sits in the House of Lords on behalf of the Labour Party .