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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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. Jamesβs 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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