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Also by P.D. James:

Death Comes To Pemberley, December 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Talking About Detective Fiction, December 2009
Hardcover
The Private Patient, November 2008
Hardcover
The Lighthouse, November 2005
Hardcover

THE LIGHTHOUSE
By: P.D. James

A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.

Adam Dalgliesh Mystery
Knopf
November 2005
Featuring: Adam Dalgliesh
352 pages
ISBN: 030726291X
Hardcover
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Thriller Police Procedural | Thriller | Mystery

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves; Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems; and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.

This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. James’s novels the world over have come to expect: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.

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