“I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.”
Author detail
Ruth Ware (born 1977) is a British psychological crime thriller author. Her novels include *In a Dark, Dark Wood* (2015), *The Woman in Cabin 10* (2016), *The Lying Game* (2017) and *The Death of Mrs Westaway* (2018). Both *In a Dark, Dark Wood* and *The Woman in Cabin 10* were on the U.K.'s Sunday Times and The New York Times top ten bestseller lists. She is represented by Eve White of the Eve White Literary Agency. **Source**: [Ruth Ware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ware) on Wikipedia.
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“I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.”
“I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I...”
“One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a Sicily that was already lost by the time Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was writing.”
“I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what...”
“I write unreliable narrators because - paradoxically - they're the most honest, true-to-life kind there is.”
“I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and seed in the other, but I don't think I could keep track of who knows what, and...”
“We are unreliable narrators - all of us.”