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A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7)

P.D. James

Start date: July 1, 2020

Finish date: July 31, 2020

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Oct 14, 2020 Julie Durnell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pd-james, england-uk, mystery

A long and well plotted murder mystery, I like the Dalgliesh series a little more with each book. If only she would have included a character list-so hard to keep track of everyone!

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Jul 08, 2020 Susan rated it really liked it

I have been reading the Adam Dalgliesh books alongside one of my book groups and this is the seventh, published in 1986. I was surprised to realise there was almost a decade between the previous book, “Death of an Expert Witness,” (1977) and this one. She had written a Cordelia Gray novel, but still, it is quite a gap. “A Taste for Death,” is often considered one of her best novels and received awards, as well as being nominated for others. It does come across as literary crime, with a very char ...more

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Feb 20, 2014 Kavita rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, uk

A conservative politician found in a church with his throat cut along with a tramp, also murdered in the same way. The story then winds through the friends and relatives of the dead man and then a solution is found. The book was fun to read because each character was carefully drawn and had distinct personalities. You could almost meet them in real life. There were no major plot holes that I could discern but I did feel that the drama at the end was a little unrealistic. But overall, a nice cosy ...more

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