Harm Done - Abridged

Reviews

"Ruth Rendell is unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time."
--Patricia Cornwell

"Rendell's clear, shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional."
--The New Yorker

"No one plays head games quite as well as Rendell."
--The Gazette (Montreal)

"Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint, with such a literate voice and an insightful mind, that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime."
--Los Angeles Times

"No one writes with more devastating accuracy about the world we live and commit sins in today. . . . She is one of our most important novelists."
--John Mortimer

"Rendell just seems to get sharper and sharper."
--The Ottawa Citizen

"British crime at its best can be found in the fiction of Ruth Rendell, for whom no superlative is sufficient."
--Chronicle-Herald (Halifax)

"Ruth Rendell has written some of the best novels of twentieth-century crime fiction."
--Frances Fyfield, author of Blind Date and Without Consent

"Ruth Rendell is surely one of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language. She is a writer whose work should be read by anyone who enjoys either brilliant mystery--or distinguished literature."
--Scott Turow Expand reviews