The tradition of excellence begun by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh in the "Golden Age" of British crime and detective fiction during the early twentieth century, and continued by Ruth Rendell and P. D. James, has since 1992 been even further enriched by the novels of Minette Walters...Walters has developed a reputation for writing dark novels on psychological and social themes that extend well beyond the particulars of the murders and perpetrators that populate her work.