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Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, witha room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon disc...more

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Feb 16, 2012 Robin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I struggled to finish this book. It wasn't just that it was not to my taste (and I read a lot of crime novels).

It certainly is not, as it says on the tin, 'Classic, guaranteed to delight all crime addicts.'

We're introduced to commander Dalgliesh in chap 1-2. There then follows 8 or 9 chapters devoted to the background of all the potential culprits – straightforward info-dumping on a mighty scale. The narrative ground to a halt while we get background background background. Then the murder occur...more

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Dec 12, 2011 Hannah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-reads, mysteries, police-procedurals

Formulaic, but still entertaining as all get out.

Dalgliesh and Co. are called upon to figure out who's using some famous murders from the 1920's and 30's as templates for a series of murders in and around a small niche museum near Hampstead Heath.

As is usual with a whodunnit from James, there is no shortage of acerbic, depressive and agnostic/atheistic suspects to choose from. Nor is there any doubt that each of these suspects (and for that matter, the detectives) will have their homes (both ext...more

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May 22, 2010 Sarah Ryburn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-suspense

love james's detective fiction which is more literary than some of the "literary fiction" i find on book store shelves today. her prose has that reliability that i crave in a novel- similar to dickens, really, i can just sit back, read, enjoy, and trust that at no point will she affront me with bad sentence structure, awkward dialogue-jargon attempting to sound "realistic," or even the occasional punctuation malfunction. flawless. and completely enjoyable. that her subject matter happens to be m...more

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Dec 01, 2010 Rose added it

Shelves: 2009, fiction

A reasonable enough mystery, but not top-notch, and with a very contrived feel. What are the chances that an innocent motorist leaving the scene of a copy-cat crime would just happen to say the exact same words that the murderer in the original crime did? The whole book has a similar air of unreality.

I have written in previous reviews of PD James’ books that she has a tendency to go on about particular social issues in an annoying way, in book after book. To this list I will now add drinks. What...more

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Apr 01, 2009 Tony rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-crime-detection

James, P.D. THE MURDER ROOM. (2003). *****. Again we meet up with Commander Adam Dalgliesh as he solves the mysterious deaths of two different victims at a museum. The museum is the Dupayne, a museum dedicated to the years between the wars, with rooms celebrating different aspects of their history. There is an art gallery, a library, and – most importantly – a room devoted to the most notorious murders of that time. This room, obviously, was called the Murder Room. The museum was founded by Max...more James, P.D. THE MURDER ROOM. (2003). *****. Again we meet up with Commander Adam Dalgliesh as he solves the mysterious deaths of two different victims at a museum. The museum is the Dupayne, a museum dedicated to the years between the wars, with rooms celebrating different aspects of their history. There is an art gallery, a library, and – most importantly – a room devoted to the most notorious murders of that time. This room, obviously, was called the Murder Room. The museum was founded by Max Dupayne, and when he died, was passed on to his three children, two boys and one girl. It is time for the lease to be renewed, but one of the provisions of Max’s will was that the signatures of all three of his heirs would be required to renew the lease. Otherwise, the museum would have to discontinue its existence. Of the three heirs, one, Neville, a psychiatrist, was opposed to signing the new lease. He felt that the family wasted too much money and time looking backwards, and that the whole thing should be dissolved. Commander Dalgliesh is soon called in to investigate the killing of one of the family members, who turns out to be Neville. He was set afire while picking up his Jaguar from the museum’s garage. Obvious suspects were the remaining brother and sister, but there was a profusion of other potential suspects, too. Each member of the staff knew of the schism among the siblings, and each had something to lose if the museum ceased to be. While searching for clues among all these prospects, another victim is claimed – a young girl had been strangled and dumped into a trunk in the Murder Room, a trunk that had, at one time, contained the body of another young woman killed in the 1920s. The plot thickens. This is another excellent police procedural by Ms. James that has more than its share of twists and turns, and a surprise ending to the crime spree. It also gives Dalgliesh a chance to finally unite with his love, Emma. Highly recommended.(less)

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May 13, 2013 Leon rated it 4 of 5 stars

National Bestseller

Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.

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National Bestseller

Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of the fellow trustees and the Dupayne's devoted staff. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the murderer has been inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room--and is preparing to kill again--Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.

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Neither the mystery nor the detective present James's followers with anything truly new in her latest Adam Dalgliesh novel (after 2001's Death in Holy Orders), which opens, like other recent books in the series, with an extended portrayal of an aging institution whose survival is threatened by one person, who rapidly becomes the focus of resentment and hostility. Neville Dupayne, a trustee of the Dupayne Museum, a small, private institution devoted to England between the world wars, plans to veto its continuing operation. After many pages of background on the museum's employees, volunteers and others who would be affected by the trustee's unpopular decision, Neville meets his end in a manner paralleling a notorious historical murder exhibited in the museum's "Murder Room." MI5's interest in one of the people connected with the crime leads to Commander Dalgleish and his team taking on the case. While a romance develops between the commander, who's even more understated than usual, and Emma Lavenham, introduced in Death in Holy Orders, this subplot has minimal impact. A second murder raises the ante, but the whodunit aspect falls short of James's best work. Hopefully, this is an isolated lapse for an author who excels at characterization and basic human psychology.
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After 16 novels, James is still able to find insular communities of professionals in which to set her crimes. This time it's the staff of a quirky museum devoted to England between the wars. The piece de resistance of the museum's collection is the Murder Room, in which are gathered artifacts from famous homicides that took place during the interwar years. Naturally, the room plays a crucial role, both as setting and as backstory, when real-life murder comes to the museum. It starts not in the Murder Room but in a garage, where one member of the family-owned museum is incinerated after being doused with petrol. That the victim was lobbying to sell the museum, over the objections of his sister and brother, only adds fuel to a fire that Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgleish is asked to extinguish. As always, James delves deeply into the psyches of her characters--in this case, the museum's staff--uncovering not just motives and secrets, the stuff of any crime plot, but also the flesh and bone of personality. Her novels follow a formula in terms of the action and the setting, but her people rise above that pattern, their complexity giving muscle and sinew to the bare skeleton of the classical detective story. And none so much as Dalgleish himself, who now must contend with tremors of "precarious joy" as his feelings for Emma, a Cambridge professor he met in Holy Orders (2001), force a life-changing decision. James, at 83, has mastered the trick of repeating herself in ever-fascinating new ways. Bill Ott
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Aug 07, 2012 Lisa C rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audiobook, mysteries

If you like considerable detail in the characters of your mystery, then James' Adam Dalgliesh series might be for you. I for one, found the build up to the actual events of the crime to be far too slow for my taste, being accustomed to Agatha Christie's style of writing.

I knew that the one or two others of her books I'd read hadn't made much of an impact, but I can say I probably won't read another. It's a shame, since I really enjoyed the details of English life, but most of the other details j...more

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Sep 10, 2011 John rated it 3 of 5 stars

The Murder Room

by P.D. James

Knopf, 432 pages, hardback, 2003

The small Dupayne Museum, on the edge of a large area of
parkland, Hampstead Heath, in North London, houses exhibitions
devoted to life in Britain between the two World Wars. Although
the museum draws relatively few visitors, it does have one
perennially popular attraction, the Murder Room, containing
exhibits related to the most notorious murders of the period.

Old Max Dupayne, its founder, willed that his three children
Neville, Caroline a...more

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Jul 20, 2010 Jerry rated it 4 of 5 stars

Pleasing but "slowish" 16th novel from great British writer...

PD James, "a", if not "the", grand dame of English mystery literature, has given us yet another in the Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh series. Fundamentally police procedurals, James' novels typically employ very solid character work and evocative scene setting to channel our thoughts and imagery along many more lines than just the "whodunit" plot at hand. Making some allowances for our author's 83 years of age, we find some o...more Pleasing but "slowish" 16th novel from great British writer...

PD James, "a", if not "the", grand dame of English mystery literature, has given us yet another in the Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh series. Fundamentally police procedurals, James' novels typically employ very solid character work and evocative scene setting to channel our thoughts and imagery along many more lines than just the "whodunit" plot at hand. Making some allowances for our author's 83 years of age, we find some of the familiar setup work and drawing out of personas as in her earlier writing. But the plot per se is like a long and somewhat tiring game of "Clue"! Set in an obscure DuPayne Museum, dedicated to art, literature, and criminal murder activities of England between the two world wars (talk about a narrow niche), we soon become all too familiar with the limited cast of players, almost for sure one of whom is the villain, presuming some crime is in the offing. It takes a full 100 pages or so before a murder occurs to get things moving, and before it's over, a second murder and a third attempt happen before the perpetrator is ID'd -- who then makes things easy with an almost immediate confession. A mysterious driver leaving the scene is one of a few red herrings not cleared up til near the end. And a small sub-plot involving Adam's fledgling romance with college prof Emma, and whether marriage is on the horizon, is almost as compelling a mystery as the central story, despite the very few pages devoted to it.

We feel this is a good book but not the best of the author's efforts. The middle book gets really dry, yet Adam's love life difficulties could have added a lot of fun and human interest had it been given more air time. Some of the familiar sidekicks, especially faithful Kate Miskin, seemed to get shorter shrift than usual somewhat to our dismay. While we are more than glad to see PD back, and generally enjoyed the "Murder Room", this book leads us to fear there may not be too much pizzazz left in the aged pen.

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Jul 29, 2009 Starling rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, mystery

It is unusual for me to give any book 5 stars. It has to be more than a book I've enjoyed and even more than a book I might re-read. Mostly I give the books I enjoy 4 stars. To some extent I'm reacting to the bad reviews this book has received from people who did not understand what they were picking up when they chose to read the book, and therefor ended up with the wrong book at the wrong time.

PD James has been writing murder mysteries with Dalgliesh as her main character since the 1960s. One...more

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Jul 02, 2011 Migdalia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-crime

Some authors are in a class by themselves, or they help define the class. They are not just great writers, but they are great storytellers. They also understand their subjects better than anyone else, as if it's in their DNA. They can not only teach a class, but they can also teach by example.

PD James is one of these people. Pick up any one of her books, and you'll get any lesson you want. Want to learn creative writing? She's a perfect example. Want to learn how to tell a tale, describe your ch...more Some authors are in a class by themselves, or they help define the class. They are not just great writers, but they are great storytellers. They also understand their subjects better than anyone else, as if it's in their DNA. They can not only teach a class, but they can also teach by example.

PD James is one of these people. Pick up any one of her books, and you'll get any lesson you want. Want to learn creative writing? She's a perfect example. Want to learn how to tell a tale, describe your characters, set the mood, build suspense, close so that people are both satisfied with the outcome and conclusion but eager to read more? This is your writer. Few can write mystery as well as she does. None surpass her.

The Murder Room sounds simple in premise: Inspector Dalgliesh - one of the mystery genre's legendary characters - is called in to solve the murder of a prominent psychiatrist and family trustee of a small museum whose future is in question. The psychiatrist was at odds with his two siblings who wanted to keep the struggling museum open, and this appears to be a motive for his murder. However, there are a bunch of people who would profit (either financially or otherwise) for his demise, and PD James is great at building the suspense at the same time that she has Dalgliesh build the case. What's more, if you pay attention, you can figure things out, but only if you pay really good attention. You have enough clues and follow as if you're the other detective. At one point, an inspector confronts Dalgliesh about the murderer's identity without naming the person, and Dalgliesh admits he knows who it is but won't say until they have enough proof for an arrest and a conviction. In other words, you get to be at eye level with Dalgliesh, and that's half the fun.

In addition to the demands placed on him by his job, Dalgliesh is also trying to build a romantic relationship, and this only adds to the tension and excitement. For those who have followed Dalgliesh over 14 or so books, you are not only titillated by the idea, but you want to know how that goes, too. After all, here's a very clever guy who can solve complicated cases. Can he also get his life in order? What's nice is that the sentiment is real and realistic. There's not of that annoying contrast where smart characters who can make 99 smart decisions suddenly act like complete morons for 1 decision. Like Parker's Spenser, Dalgliesh is practical, sensible, empathic man who's able to hold his emotions in check. He's always responsible, dependable and in control, but he accepts other's failings without judgment - just the determination to find the truth, get justice and avoid hurting those whose only crime is being collateral.

There is no schmaltz or overly sentimental prose here. Every sentence means something, or it won't be used. Characters are what they are. Nothing more or less. Some are just nastier than others. PD James strikes gold again.(less)

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Apr 29, 2009 Bridget rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: P.D. James fans, smart mystery fans

Shelves: 2009-reads

The Murder Room of the title is located in the Dupayne Museum in London, and commemorates some of the most fantastic and lurid murders in history. Through a chance meeting, Adam Dalgliesh visits with an acquaintance, but is called back soon after to investigate a series of murders. The first murder is one of the members of the Dupayne family, who were named as trustees in their late father’s will, with the caveat that any decisions regarding the museum have to be unanimous among the three surviv...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Elaine rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-literature, detective-fiction

James begins her book with an epigraph from 'The Four Quartets.' Hence, from the start, I knew I'd love this book. And I did. James' careful characterization and organization work together to make a suspenseful plot, in which one comes to love even the minor characters and fear their demise.

Moreover, 'The Murder Room' boasts impressive thematic unity--something one doesn't often see in a detective novel.

And, as always, I LOVED Detective Inspector Kate Miskin. Unlike the one-sided, overly mascu...more

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Mar 08, 2011 jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Dupayne Museum is situated right outside London and houses a collection of artifacts about the years in between WWI and WWII. It also contains The Murder Room, filled with evidence of the most famous murders of the era.
The Dupayne children, all in their 40's-50's, have never loved each other or the father who founded the museum. When the lease on the property comes due, Neville announces that he has no intention of signing to keep the museum open and that he would rather see it close and be...more

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Jul 27, 2012 Lainie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Good lord, this was excruciating. I picked a murder mystery by a well loved author to chase my previous read, which had been the opposite of a page turner. What a disappointment. I realize this is only one of many PD James novels, but it gave me no incentive to try the others. Super slow build, an author who tells you instead of showing you, with interminable descriptions of interiors, faces, gardens, and clothing, none of which are anywhere near relevant to the plot. At some point, I had to sta...more

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Aug 30, 2012 Jason rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: pulp-ish

I wanted to read some page-turning mysteries and someone recommended James. I picked this up for a song at a used bookstore. I really enjoyed James' style--she's a good writer, if very British (read: unnecessarily wordy) and I also enjoyed being transported back to London, which I hand't thought of for a while. But even with a large cast of characters, there weren't enough surprises. I kept coming up with outlandish solutions, because I was expecting something dramatic, but really the outcome wa...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Pamela rated it 2 of 5 stars

I'm usually a fan of P.D. James, but not with this one. Don't know if she was under some kind of deadline or just bored, but it's definitely one of her better stories...probably the worst I've read from her. Bad thing is, it pretty much qualifies as all around bad. Sure, there's the usual Dalgliesh angst, the detail of ordinary life, the gorgeous descriptions of the English countryside. Unfortunately that's about all there is. The mystery is very disappointing, and the solution even more so. Too...more

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Apr 01, 2011 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: great-mysteries

I just like mysteries. I read a lot of them. I have hardly met one I did not like, nor finish.(there has been a few I did not care to read another by the same author, but I'd finish the one I started, so my discernment may be off compared to others.) I liked this book because James writes almost what you could term "in a pretty poetic manner. this was not a book I would term: "cannot put down." though. I did really want to know who was doing the murder though and compared to other books I spent...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Ed rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: p-d-james

It is odd how foreign the details of daily life in England can be to an American reader. A wife commits suicide because she can no longer care for her Alzheimer's ridden husband and he has been on a waiting list for almost a year to get into a National Health nursing home--the attending psychiatrist is a board member of a private museum; a cottage that is tied to the museum, the only place an aging but still active woman could ever call home; the curator of the museum is dying of cancer and need...more

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Jan 24, 2013 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

P.D. James is a superb wordsmith who can take a handful of words and evoke a character, dark mood and English setting better than anyone. At 83, she put this book together and it has Adam Dalgleish preparing to propose to his current amour Emma. From previous tension probably from another book, he has blown it with her before and once again he gets sidetracked by work. This time a murder has ironically happened in a murder room in a museum that is dedicated to exhibiting artifacts from past cont...more

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Sep 21, 2009 Rachel rated it 3 of 5 stars

I still like P.D. James, although this wasn't my favorite of those I've read. It's more contemporary than the others I've read (since it's a recent novel), but it does still have that classic murder mystery "charm." Basically, Adam Dalgliesh and co. are called in to solve a series of murders at a museum dedicated to the interwar years in Britain. Now that I'm thinking about it again, I'm remembering that my key disappointment was that I was able to figure out who did it. I know lots of people wh...more

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Feb 14, 2011 Kate rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: junkfood-mysteries, 75-books-in-2011

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Apr 20, 2010 Badlydone rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: pd-james

Another great Adam Dalgliesh mystery. The Dupaynes, two brothers and a sister run an esoteric museum dedicated to the interwar years in London. All is well until one of the brothers, Dr. Neville Dupayne, decides not to support the renewal of the lease on the museum, a move that will lead to the closing of the museum and job losses. Dr. Dupayne is soon found murdered in a horrifying manner, and there is more than one person who would have benefitted by his death.

P. D. James is the master of char...more

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Aug 27, 2011 Sandy D. rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: great-britain-ireland, mystery

A big hefty classic British mystery that takes place in a small private museum. It was slow starting, because there were so many characters - all quintessentially British, btw. The retired colonel, the girls' school headmaster, the up & coming female detective, the older Inspector (Adam Dalgliesh, from previous novels), the bad girl, etc.

It did pick up a bit in the middle and it got more gripping. I guess I would say it was very well-crafted, but I didn't care about the characters as much as...more

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Jul 28, 2012 Nancy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

As you know, I am a fan. I've made my way through the entire series, in order. Adam Dalgliesh, with the help of his team -- including Kate Miskin -- always figures out who the bad guy is. In this case, Vulcan, the murderer, killed in a particularly nasty way, twice. With bodies turning up in or near the museum in Hampstead dedicated to the interwar years, the Commander needed to rely on his intuition, logic, and his systematic investigatory powers. As in the previous novel, the hero also has a h...more

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Feb 15, 2011 Amyem added it

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I picked this up to read super quick because I was so confused by Part 1 of the Mystery adaption and wanted to know what happens before Part 2 is on. I finished it in a tearing read at 1:30am, skipping over about 1 page of what seemed to be headed for egregious and awful animal cruelty before the grand wrap up ending. The adaption cut out several subplots which didn't impact the final outcome but were good for diverting attention from the real clues. I was fairly close in my guesses but I liked...more

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May 15, 2012 Hannah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was... entertaining. I enjoyed reading it. That being said, it was nothing special. The writing was average (if anything, it was TOO descriptive sometimes). And the suspenseful, murder moments were a bit of a let down. Also, it takes a really long to get into any action in the book. The first 150 pages is simply backstory on the characters. I didn't care to get that much detail. I wanted into the main plot, the plot that had been captured on the blurb on the back of the book and had so...more

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Jul 26, 2009 Virginia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Oh I shouldn't give this a four star but I do admire P.D. James so much. She is writing with the same extraordinary skill and high literary standard as ever and she is over eighty. Her books have the unmistakable British patina and her references are cultured as well as up to date. I donm't know how she does it. So her mysteries are a bit formulaic. What mysteries aren't? She has created a couple of the most memorable detectives in the history of mystery fiction. Kudoes to her. I recommend this...more

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Aug 11, 2012 Nathanael Booth rated it 3 of 5 stars

The premise here is fantastic: at a museum with a room dedicated to murders of the thirties, someone is killing people in exact imitations of the original crimes. It’s the sort of thing that would send J.D. Carr into a holy terror of creation, launching Gideon Fell into a surreal investigation of time-displaced murder, etc etc etc. And in a couple of places, James very nearly does that; her narration surrounding the discovery of the second murder positively sings. It’s disturbing and surreal and...more

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Jan 30, 2011 Amy rated it 2 of 5 stars

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