{"id":277,"date":"2008-07-16T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2008-07-16T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:23:07","slug":"ruth-rendell-barbara-vine-inspector-wexford-stand-alones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/ruth-rendell-barbara-vine-inspector-wexford-stand-alones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Rendell&#8230; Barbara Vine, Inspector Wexford, Stand-Alones&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this blog should give you an idea of just how much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Ruth-Rendell.html\">Ruth Rendell <\/a>has contributed to the world of fiction. I have read less than a dozen (but more than half a dozen) of her works, and have enjoyed each book immensely. As <strong>Barbara Vine<\/strong>, she writes incredibly detailed, three-dimensional fiction&#8230; I have to admit to a bias for mysteries, but I love Vine&#8217;s work outside of the mystery genre.<\/p>\n<p>As Ruth Rendell, she writes two types of books&#8230; anyway, based on the more than half a dozen\u00a0books that I have read by her, that&#8217;s what I think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She has the wildly popular <strong>Inspector Wexford<\/strong> series (of which the 21st was published in 2008) and she also has her <strong>stand-alone novels<\/strong>. I am more familiar with the stand-alones, and\u00a0 still remember getting totally hooked on Rendell&#8217;s style after reading <strong>Live Flesh<\/strong>. YOW!!!!! Rendell&#8217;s stand-alone mysteries are psychological studies&#8230; I hate to say psychological thrillers because, on this COZY site, that might put off a lot of potential readers&#8230; But, I am going to go ahead and say it&#8230; they are just that&#8230; but PLEASE don&#8217;t let that put you, the Cozy reader off&#8230; Rendell is simply fantastic at her craft!!! She seems to know the minds of the psychotic people who inhabit her books. (Note that I didn&#8217;t say &#8220;characters&#8221;&#8230; She is so good that they become &#8220;people&#8221; rather than characters!)<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t think that you&#8217;re up to a psychological thriller,\u00a0then the Inspector Wexford novels are probably the way you should &#8220;try&#8221; Rendell (if you aren&#8217;t already a fan of Rendell&#8217;s work.) I have decided to start her Inspector Wexford novels at the very beginning, and read them all the way through&#8230; I have all 21 books beckoning to me, so here goes&#8230; I am delighted with my choice of Ruth Rendell, an author with whom I will be spending a considerable amount of time reading and enjoying&#8230; (And, this time, I am going to read the books in the correct chronological order!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this blog should give you an idea of just how much Ruth Rendell has contributed to the world of fiction. I have read less than a dozen (but more than half a dozen) of her works, and have enjoyed each book immensely. 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