 THE POTTING SHED MURDER |
|
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.
Adam Dalgliesh 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.
Our Past Week of Fresh Picks
With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that Read More »
When a very personal cold case murder is reopened, a detective’s secrets come to light in a novel of shocking twists and suspense Read More »
Big Little Lies meets Tiger King in this fun and propulsive debut novel about three suburban women who, over the course of Read More »
Two unlikely allies search for the secrets of their pasts while on the run within the Alien world of Harmony in the thrilling new novel Read More »
A small town girl turned big city businesswoman returns home to help her parents, only to find her heart being tugged between her old flame Read More »
Julie Murphy\'s If the Shoe Fits meets Talia Hibbert\'s Take a Hint, Dani Brown--USA Today bestselling author Danielle Allen brings another steamy Read More »
There once was a man who loved me, until he forgot every memory we\'ve ever shared…Gabriel Sinclair would forever be my first Read More »
Falling for the wrong twin never felt so good . . . From the NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, & USA TODAY bestselling series Identical twins Beau Read More » |
Fast-paced thriller combining science and fiction
|
| |||
|
||||
© 2003-2025