“We are devastated by the loss of one of our most beloved authors,” the Penguin Random House said in a statement, adding that Ruth Rendell died at 08:00 in London ( the same time in Lisbon).
often presented as one of the great ladies of the detective story and a worthy heir to Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, born in London in 1930, wrote more than 60 books and is translated into more than 20 languages.
Gender lovers consider that renewed the style, such as PD James, another author of British police, who died in November 2014, aged 94.
After a brief foray into journalism, which he left to be accused of “making up stories,” Ruth Rendell published his first novel with character Reginald Wexford inspector in 1964, titling it “From Doon with Death” and setting off a series of more than more than 20 volumes in which socias addressed issues such as domestic violence, racism or poverty.
In addition to this series, which had television adaptation, Ruth Rendell wrote ‘thrillers’ psychological, more focused on the issues that led to crimes than in the investigation, under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, selling hundreds of thousands of copies a bit around the world.
Member of the House of Lords, Rendell, politically aligned to the left, wrote his novels in the morning and in the afternoon, sat in the upper house of the British Parliament, dedicating itself to examining projects-in-law and to debate government policy.
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