I don’t think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn’t necessarily have a murder in it. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy’ began differently from any previous book I’d written. It actually derives from a story a friend – the novel’s dedicatee, Patrick Maher – told me. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I’d created a series character. Ruth Rendell Read Quote
