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Steve
Jun 21, 2022 rated it liked it
Shelves: crime-mystery-noir
The first half or so is wonderful, atmospheric, crowded with red herrings and churchy things (grudges, art, candles, music, priests doing bad things, a questionable parchment). The second half, with Dalgliesh's cracker-jack team arriving to investigate a brutal killing (or more) left me underwhelmed. It's like the novel's carefully constructed atmosphere dissipated and the necessary but, at least in part, improbable mechanics of the genre took over. ...more
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Rebekah
May 04, 2017 rated it liked it
Shelves: genre-european-literature-british-l, genre-mystery-crime, genre-mystery, series, genre-mystery-detective, setting-uk, book-club, genre-fiction
My first P.D. James novel. I do like her writing style and use of setting.
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Joseph
Jul 12, 2008 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: mystery
mstan
Aug 23, 2008 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: british, mystery
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Nov 07, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Oct 29, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Feb 26, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: crime-fiction, england
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