A Dark-Adapted Eye

"Yes. There were two I liked. A Dark-Adapted Eye was the first one, and the second one was called A Fatal Inversion. I like Ruth Rendell very much as a writer, and I just found it amazing when she suddenly started writing under this new persona. And I thought the books had another level: it was as if she’d been holding back this extra skill. They were very different from the Ruth Rendells – and I just thought those first two were amazing… A greater depth. Because her early books – the early Wexford books – were very good, but fairly traditional police procedural whodunnits. Then some of the psycho-pathological ones like A Judgement in Stone were also very good and very creepy. But this seemed somehow a broader canvas, it seemed to involve more depth of character, and I thought it was remarkable that a good writer could suddenly get so much better."