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3.5 stars for the wonderful writing and intricate plotting, but oh my there are so many characters!
As the year comes to an end, I returned to one of my favourite gentleman detectives, Adam Dalgliesh. PD James paints a vivid picture of a remote coastal town where Adam finds himself one foggy morning in search of meeting an old friend, who he finds to be dead. What follows then is a cat and mouse game between Adam the sleuth, his convalescing self hell-bent on leaving the Yard and the crafty villain who preys more on people's psyche than their wallets.
The plot is made more memorable by James' ...more
The plot is made more memorable by James' ...more
Maybe ★★★ 1\2.
Adam Dalgliesh learns a little something about false diagnoses. Then he goes to visit a friend who apparently died just before he arrives. The friend was working as a counselor/priest at a nursing home (?) for quadriplegics at a converted estate. But the bodies keep falling and they all appear to be natural causes. There were too many for natural causes to have killed them all.
All this while Adam is considering leaving the Met.
This was okay but as I was listening to this today, I ...more
Adam Dalgliesh learns a little something about false diagnoses. Then he goes to visit a friend who apparently died just before he arrives. The friend was working as a counselor/priest at a nursing home (?) for quadriplegics at a converted estate. But the bodies keep falling and they all appear to be natural causes. There were too many for natural causes to have killed them all.
All this while Adam is considering leaving the Met.
This was okay but as I was listening to this today, I ...more
Long....
May 07, 2011
Abbey
rated it
it was amazing
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#5 Adam Dalgleish, rural Dorset; professional as amateur sleuth. The death of an old friend involves Adam in the peculiar goings on at a home for disabled young adults, and introduces him to some very interesting, and odd characters.
Another darkly philosophical visit with this superbly realized, quite unusual sleuth, as he wanders around the countryside convalescing after severe illness, and trying to get his life back on track. Resonates with pain and darknesses of many kinds, on several level ...more
Another darkly philosophical visit with this superbly realized, quite unusual sleuth, as he wanders around the countryside convalescing after severe illness, and trying to get his life back on track. Resonates with pain and darknesses of many kinds, on several level ...more
I need to re- read this one!
Apr 24, 2012
Peggy
rated it
really liked it
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Jul 06, 2012
AnneEssDee (I'm on StoryGraph too)
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
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Feb 09, 2020
Diane
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really liked it
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