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Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)

P.D. James

Start date: November 1, 2020

Finish date: November 30, 2020

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Why we're reading this: The last but one in our 2020 PD James challenge.
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Dec 01, 2022 Julie Durnell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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It's taken me a good half of the series to really start to enjoy the Dalgliesh books, and this one was very good. So many red herrings and rabbit trails-I was stumped to figure out the culprit and even when it was revealed I was thinking it was actually going to turn out to be someone else! It will be interesting to see if love has found Dalgliesh after all. ...more

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Nov 12, 2020 Susan rated it liked it · review of another edition

Published in 2001, this is the eleventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, and a slightly odd addition to the series. Like many in the series, this is set in an isolated, rural community - in this case, Saint Anselm's - an Anglo-Catholic theological college. When an unpopular student is found dead on the beach, his wealthy father asks for an investigation. Dalgliesh had visited the college as a boy and so heads off to see whether the death was an accident, or something more suspicious.

There are some bizarre ...more

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