{"id":4357,"date":"2015-05-03T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2015-05-03T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T11:41:17","slug":"british-crime-writer-ruth-rendell-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-crime-writer-ruth-rendell-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"British crime writer Ruth Rendell dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Best-selling-British-crime-writer-Ruth-Rendell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4358\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Best-selling-British-crime-writer-Ruth-Rendell.jpg\" alt=\"Best-selling British crime writer Ruth Rendell\" width=\"311\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Best-selling-British-crime-writer-Ruth-Rendell.jpg 311w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Best-selling-British-crime-writer-Ruth-Rendell-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a>Best-selling British crime writer Ruth Rendell, who wrote over 60 books in a career spanning five decades, died on Saturday at the age of 85, her publisher said.<br \/>\nRendell suffered a stroke in January and had been in a critical condition in hospital.<br \/>\nIn a statement, Penguin Random House said: \u201cWe are devastated by the loss of one of our best-loved authors.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe will miss her enormously,\u201d it said.<br \/>\nGail Rebuck, chair of Penguin Random House UK, said: \u201cRuth was much admired by the whole publishing industry for her brilliant body of work.<br \/>\n\u201cAn insightful and elegant observer of society, many of her award-winning thrillers and psychological murder mysteries highlighted the causes she cared so deeply about,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-crime-writer-ruth-rendell-dies\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best-selling British crime writer Ruth Rendell, who wrote over 60 books in a career spanning five decades, died on Saturday at the age of 85, her publisher said. Rendell suffered a stroke in January and had been in a critical condition in hospital. In a statement, Penguin Random House said: \u201cWe are devastated by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}