Rendell

British  

/ rɛnˈdɛl, ˈrɛndəl /

noun

1. Ruth ( Barbara ), Baroness. born 1930, British crime writer: author of detective novels, such as Wolf to the Slaughter (1967), and psychological thrillers, such as The Lake of Darkness (1980) and (under the name Barbara Vine ) A Fatal Inversion (1987) and The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998)

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Example Sentences

Though Rendell got USAir to put a flight operations center in nearby Moon a few years later, the airline was still broadly pulling back from Pittsburgh.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

But Rendell, who was not involved with the current work, worries the impulse to liken sperm whale communication with human language risks mistaking what’s distinctive about whales.

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

“It may well be that they started interacting with these things and then realized that if you hit them around enough, they give you a toy,” Rendell told Salon in a video call.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2024

Roth’s feature realization, scripted by Jeff Rendell from a story by both Rendell and Roth, opens with a Carpenter tribute, a shot from an unknown point of view, approaching a door, perhaps menacingly.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2023

That his books couldn’t compare to the works of Ruth Rendell or James Ellroy, and that he wasn’t even fit to tie Elmore Leonard’s shoes.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson