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    <body><![CDATA[My best friend Diane got me hooked on James, an English author with many, many writing accolades.<br/><br/>From Google Books: Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50598795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was introduced to James by Lyndsay, my British sister-in-law.  I met her at university and introduced her to my cousin. She was quite brilliant and always led me to good reads and we both shared a fondness for mysteries.  I soon after picked up a book called The Black Tower and found it impossibly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58920466">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good old fashioned writing.  It's a good enough story and the characters are mostly believable (meaning slightly overblown because who wants to read about everyday people, but not outrageous).   I found myself a couple of times thinking &quot;this is how books used to be...you could count on being s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77752788">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really need to stop reading P.D. James.  My understanding is that plenty of people love her, but this is the third book I've read and finished only out of a sense of duty.  In a twist, her hero Adam Dalgleish (or however you spell that) is on the outside of a case looking in.  I'm not sure whether...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16363585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this too crowded with characters which was maybe an attempt to convey a sense of place and community.  But some of the characters seemed too much like types, and it was a bit gruesome for me, both in the sense of describing how characters died, and in actually describing the death of charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41626005">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book took me about 6 years to read, in three different shifts.  It is good, but just took me a really long time to get into the first time.  The backstory about each of the characters is lengthy, and although their tales all end up intertwining in this mystery set on a small coastal village, it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41840534">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this was one of the first P.D. James books I read.  It's good, but a bit different from some of her other Adam Dalgleish stories because A.D. is only a minor character.  Not my favorite of hers, but even her worst is pretty darn good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm working my way through PD James as well - I can't decide if I like the way she mixes up the POVs between new characters/suspects and the crew of cops she uses, but I do love Adam Dalgelish.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[330/600pp. Insufferable. I reached the &quot;Why am I wasting my time reading this?&quot; moment. (book was given to me by this curious librarian at the nearby branch of the brooklyn public library).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book to read on a vacation. Although it isn't my favorite P.D. James work, it was taut, well written, and delved into characters' inner lives more deeply than is typical in the genre.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I certainly miss the BBC series of Dalgliesh, but enjoy Ms. James's ponderous books as well.  Such precise language and excellent characters.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Often after reading the initital chapters that set up a mystery, I race through to the end to find out who-done-it. With this book I enjoyed reading the whole book as various characters were developed. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[again, loved it. formulaic, with great characters and details, loving the predictability but not necessarily knowing the end.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A P.D. James book can never be horrible,but an Adam Dalgliesh book with very little Adam Dalgliesh could always be better.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So sad to have to stop partway through this book. So much to like in it, but this one was just too creepy for me.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[After publication of his book of poetry, Adam Dalgliesh escapes from the hubbub of London for a remote Norfolk headland and the converted windmill his aunt left him. But Dalgliesh cannot so easily escape from murder.<br/><br/>In Norfolk, a deranged killer prowls the countryside, holding tranquility hostage. Murders proliferate. Is there a connection with the nuclear power station? Not far from it, the killer has left his victims, all women, strangled. Dalgliesh suspects his own neck is very exposed.<br/><br/>&quot;DEVICES AND DESIRES is P.D. James at better than her best.&quot; (The New York Times)]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[another delightful detective story featuring Adam Dalgleish, with great descriptions of the English headlands.]]></body>
    
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