The Lighthouse. by P.D. James - An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (Hardback) 2005 AS-NEW

THE LIGHTHOUSE by P.D. James.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite o 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. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficuly time fir 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 Anglo-Indian Sergeant francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly have the tea begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing and the whole investgation is jeopardised when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.

This eagerly awaited successor to THE MURDER ROOM displays the qualities which aficionados have come to expect of P.D. james: sensitive characterisation, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place. THE LIGHTHOUSE is a subtle and powerul work of contemporary fiction

A hardback published in 2005 by Faber and Faber. - in AS-NEW condition

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