1930 - 2015 ... With the disappearance in 2015 of ruth rendel, the legend of the great British crime mystery writers paled almost entirely. Throughout the twentieth century the works of the Connan doyle, Agatha Christie, Dickson carr and Rendell herself ran like wildfire among some readers who, for greater satisfaction, did not need to wait long to find new cases in which crime was dealt with from the deduction, with that point of mysterious mist taken as a synecdoche of the great cities of the British Isles.
Police empiricism in the face of evil. Deduction between the tracks that the blood always ends up leaving. Surprising turns and situations of maximum tension always concluded from the superior intellect of characters dedicated to clarifying the most strange or hidden cases of homicide as a tool for a thousand and one interests or purposes.
Undoubtedly the approaches around the case of turn, to be resolved in the Rendell case mainly by Inspector Wexford, ended up awakening a mental agility unparalleled in all these authors whose natural setting already offered the best scenery for so many plots of characters exposed to that guilt that always appeared as the motives for the crime.
The formula was repeated from the beginning in many of the approaches of these authors. The psychological analysis, the presentation of the evidence, the final deduction among the labyrinth that always makes up the perfect murder attempt.
Clearly Ruth Rendell managed to adorn it all with a taste for delving into the killer instinct, recreated from philias and phobias, with the addition of murderous treachery that ends up leading us to exquisite plans to cover up all those aversions that at times connect with a more current crime novel, with suspense as a complement that ends up making his work a constant invitation to the deepest mysteries, those of the human soul.
An author who even seduced Almodóvar to bring Carne Trémula to the cinema.
Ruth Rendell's Top 3 Recommended Novels
The Hexam Place Club
Sometimes you have to dive into the work of an author like Ruth Rendell to discover great particular works beyond the most popular sagas.
In this novel, those starting patterns of the living room case are fulfilled. Closed characters on whom the weight of doubt oscillates like the sword of Damocles, pendulating in search of misery and guilt. Everyone in the Dogong pub society is employed by London high society.
The group created to exorcise regrets about the simple destinies of those souls dedicated to service is disrupted with the arrival of Dex, a conspiracy gardener whose imbalances begin to awaken the concerns and obsessions of everyone else. Dex becomes the trigger for all kinds of confessions far beyond work complaints.
With his breakthrough, Dex helps unleash the most disturbing confidences. And freed all of the existing corset until the arrival of Dex, they begin to share the shadows of their existence and their darkest desires.
A story inspired by the interaction of some profiles of Poe, only built towards an unexpected end in which the change in status is announced as a revolution with unforeseeable consequences.
Thirteen steps
The distance that separates the peaceful and melancholic granny Gwendolen from evil. Thirteen steps from your home to the second floor that you decide to rent from Mix Cellini. A decision like that can be understood as an intention to cling to life again.
Gwendolen's time passes marked by the sound of old clocks that always seem to mark remote days lived and idealized. With her Mix she finds someone with whom she can share, at least, a common space, with whom she can feel a little less alone.
He will only occupy that place to rest after his work. But, as we could guess, Mix begins to show the most disturbing quirks about him as the plot progresses. His fixation with the murderer John Christie, who took so many victims years ago, already warns Gwendolen that he may have made a big mistake by letting him into her house.
But if only it were that ... What you will discover about Mix will point to more than admiration for the crime, because when Mix ends up setting his goal, only Gwendolen will be able to warn the more than obvious victim.
The water is splendid
Tragedy is usually composed as a closed circle. It's not about bad luck repeating itself over and over again. The question is rather one of the fatal configuration of destiny.
Or at least that follows from the shared existence in its worst image, for Heather and Ismay, the brothers whose memories are closed in the chest of what should not have been. Too young to face death in its most shocking representation. The years go by and the circle is still there, waiting to close.
That fatality is a large part of the plot of this story, a fatality whose weight is felt in each scene, like someone anticipating that the sound of an ambulance siren is going to touch them very closely.
The lives of the brothers are tracing their particular paths with their respective partners. And yet, despite the distance, the sense of alertness always keeps them together. Life is always a threatening environment for those who have known its wildest side.
But..., despite everything, just as the fatalistic circle constantly threatens to close, from the outside, reading one of these cases can also give off a sarcastic humor with which to try to cope with the sad existence announced in the imminent black chronicle.
