Ruth Rendell is one of the most influential writers in modern crime fiction. Ruth Rendell was born at Ruth Grasemann on 1930. Her parents were teachers. After her high school, Rendell became a feature writer for her local paper, the Chigwell Times. Rendell met her husband, Don Rendell when she was working as a news writer. They got married when she was 20, and had a son, Simon. Simisola was a 1994 novel by Ruth Rendell. It features her recurring detective Inspector Wexford. Simisola was the first of what Ruth Rendell has called The Political Wexfords. The story was inspired by a newspaper article about modern-day slavery in the Yorkshire city of Sheffield. The book was copyright at Design and Patents Act, 1988.Simisola was published by Arrow Books in 1995. The first published of the book was in United State by Hutchinson in 1994. The genre of the book was mystery or thriller. The book was all about the black woman went missing in Kingsmarkham. 0 09 997140 2 was the ISBN of the book contained 323 pages and was sold at the price of £9.99.The book was named Simisola because it was named after the black young woman discovered in the woods near Kingsmarkham. Simisola is a fiction novel Simisola means “rest in wealth”. The book was written in omniscient because it was all seeing. Simisola was written in intellectual quantities.

Rendell purpose was to tackle other political issues head-on and to examine racism in a country town. It is also her purpose to make the people see the difference of treatment on how a one person can get. The book was in formal style because it was characterized by long and complex sentences, a scholarly vocabulary, and a consistently serious tone. Simisola was intended for anyone especially to the high school students and age of twelve above. The book contains 24 chapters. Each chapter was greater than 5 pages and less than 13 pages.

The author presents word-pictures of scenes and events by giving specific details that appeal to the five senses, or to the reader’s imagination and the author tells the story of a series of events, usually presented in chronological order. The author also uses explanation and analysis to present a subject or to clarify an idea. Prejudice is the theme of the book because Wexford makes a decision before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case. The story happens at Kingsmarkham where only eighteen black people live. The main characters in the story are Wexford,Burden, Melanie Akande, Raymond Akande, Laurette Akande, Zack Nelson,Annette Bystock, Mr. and Mrs Epson and Simisola

As the novel opens, Wexford gets a call from his doctor, Raymond Akande. At first, Wexford thinks it’s a call about his health. But Akande has another purpose. His twenty-two-year-old daughter Melanie went missing after a visit to the local employment bureau and Akande wants Wexford’s help in finding her. Then, her disappearance takes on a more sinister aspect when another woman, Annette Bystock, is found strangled in her bed. Bystock was the jobs counselor with whom Melanie Akande met just before she disappeared, so Wexford and his team soon believe that there’s a connection between Bystock’s murder and Melanie Akande’s disappearance. A body of a young woman is discovered in the woods near Kingsmarkham. Wexford’s called to the scene and at first, he believes the body is that of Melanie Akande. He even goes so far as to inform her parents that her body’s been found. And that’s his big mistake; the body was not Melanie’s, but that of another young woman. Because of what happen Wexford concentrated more about the case. Wexford found out the Melanie Akande is not abducted, because Melanie ran out. He also found out that Melanie’s case has no connection to the two dead women. In the end, they discover that all of those events are tied together. In fact, the mystery here isn’t so much whether or not the major events are connected. They are and there’s no secret about that. Rather, the mystery is what exactly connects them and how the sequence of events played out.

I liked the story because it gives thrill and it is not boring to read and while reading this story I didn’t notice the time passed by. And I also like the statement of Wexford, that “We’re all racist.” and I could relate it to our lives because everyone of us are judgmental and even though a person looks perfect, we as a people or a person we always search for his/her mistakes or we always look for something even though a single detail or differences about him/her. Every time I read the novel it thrills me and makes me curious on what event happen next will. The only thing that I don’t like in the story is that it is has many characters and setting. We can relate the story in our lives because many of the events in the story really happen in our real lives.

We shouldn’t jump into conclusions without proofs or any evidences that would support your statement because we don’t know if it is true or humors only. “We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.”- Alfred Adler. The Daily Courier wrote about the book: "...some of it gets tedious, especially when characters who do not consider themselves racists search themselves for racist traits".

We should read such novel like this; because it will enhance our imagination and help us analyzed what is happening around us. This novel gives moral lesson to anyone who will read it. Simisola will help us realize that being a racist in not a good behavior. We see how individuals who are caught in prejudice speak and behave. We also see that prejudice isn’t just reserved for Whites against people of other races.