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L'ispettore Dalgliesh ha ricevuto in eredita un solitario mulino a vento sul promontorio di Larskoken. Un'ottima soluzione per le vacanze dell'ispettore, che sogna solo di lasciare la caotica Londra in cerca di riposo e silenzio. Sogni vani, perche in quell'angolo remoto d'Inghilterra un inafferrabile pazzo omicida ha seminato il terrore con una serie di delitti all'ombra inquietante di una centrale nucleare in cui si e verificato un misterioso suicidio. Ce n'e quanto basta per rovinare la quiete dell'ispettore, soprattutto quando accanto al suo mulino viene commesso un altro delitto. Inevitabile e il coinvolgimento di Dalgliesh che si trova cosi trascinato in una nuova, difficile indagine e in una sfida elettrizzante con il delitto.

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to visit the young man's theological college, St Anselm's - a place he knew as a boy - expecting a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacreligious and horrifying murder.

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the tenth novel to feature commander Adam Dalgliesh. A Certain Justice is a chilling murder mystery packed with forensic detail, set in the treacherous legal world of London. Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil. P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death In Holy Orders, once again explores the mysterious and intense emotions responsible for the unique crime of murder, with authority and sensitivity. A Certain Justice is set in the legal world of London and possesses all of the qualities which distinguish P.D. James as a novelist.

Un nuevo clásico de la gran dama del crimen. Cuando la pretigiosa periodista de investigación Rhoda Gradwyn ingresa en Cheverell-Powell, en Dorset, para quitars una antiestética y antigua cicatriz que le atraviesa el rostro, confia en ser operada por un cirujano celebre y pasar una tranquila semana de convalecencia en una de las mansiones mas bonitas de Dorset. Nada le hace presagiar que no saldra con vida de Cheverell Manor. El inspector Adam Dalgliesh y su equipo se encargaran del caso. Pronto toparan con un segundo asesinato, y tendran que afrontar problemas mucho mas complejos que la cuestion de la inocencia o la culpabilidad. Muerte en la clinica privada es la decimocuarta novela protagonizada por el inspector Adam Dalgliesh, en una trama excelente y verosimil, con personajes muy reales dotados de gran personalidad psicologica.

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her lover. As Dalgliesh narrows the field of suspects, a second brutal murder draws them into greater complexities of intrigue and evil.

Philippa Palfrey es una niña adoptada que crece convencida de ser la hija ilegítima de un aristócrata, pero al cumplir los dieciocho años las ansias de conocer a sus verdaderos padres la llevan a enfrentarse a una tragica realidad: Philippa es hija de un violador y una asesina. Incredula y al mismo tiempo horrorizada, Philippa quiere saber mas, hasta convertir su vida en un autentica pesadilla. En este viaje infernal en busca de una identidad, destacan nuevamente las dotes narrativas de P. D. James, una escritora que aprovecha los recursos del thriller para ofrecernos un magistral retrato de la condicion humana.P. D. James es una de las grandes damas de la novela negra.Este titulo es uno de los mas exitosos de su trayectoria.

En esta original autobiografía, escrita en forma de diario, P. D. James evoca el pasado mediante flashbacks perfectamente hilvanados. Es un diario en cuyas páginas se alternan hechos de la vida cotidiana de la autora (conferencias, lanzamiento de sus libros, vida social) con la rememoracion de sus años de infancia, en la Inglaterra posterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Como escribio sus primeras obras, su vision de la novela policiaca desde el siglo XIX hasta hoy. El lector encontrara a una P. D. James de carne y hueso, una mujer inteligente, preocupada por su epoca, por los fenomenos culturales, sociales y politicos que se van sucediendo a lo largo de su vida, y por quienes la rodean. En febrero de 2008, P. D. James recibira el Premio Carvalho, concedido por la Semana de Novela Negra de Barcelona.

Cordelia es responsable de una agencia de investigación de poca monta, pero sir George Ralston la elige para que custodie a Clarissa, su esposa, una actriz alejada de los escenerios a causa de unos anónimos alarmantes. Pese a los temores de la artista, Ambrose Gorringe, propietario de Courcy Island, consigue convencerla de que actúae en su castillo. Es entonces cuando asesinan a Clarissa pese a la vigilancia de Cordelia, y ésta se siente obligada a descubrir al homicida. La certidumbre de que hallar la verdad será tan peligroso como útil no frenará a la detective.

A comienzos del siglo XIX el asesinato de dos familias de comerciantes consternó a la sociedad londinense. El terror que generaron dichos crímenes y la presión por resolver el caso con celeridad se tradujeron en una sucesión de pesquisas apresuradas y en medidas chapuceras, que culminaron con el suicidio de un inocente. Ésta es la historia novelada de un suceso que todavía hoy remueve la conciencia de los británicos.Auténtica autora clásica contemporánea de la novela negra. Autora de uno de los detectives más reconocidos en la literatura policíaca actual: Adam Dalgliesh. Creadora de auténticos best-séllers, llevados al cine con éxito en varias ocasiones.

When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the family trustees has been horribly murdered and Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a death which, from the first, is fraught with complications. Even before the murder, the museum was in tumult. A new lease is due to be signed and two of the trustees are determined to keep the museum open, the third passionately determined on its closure.The museum is dedicated to the years 1919-1939 and one of the galleries, the Murder Room, displays exhibits from the most notorious cases of those inter-war years. And now a modern killer is at work, the crimes uncannily echoing the cases on display. All the small group of people, the trustees, staff and volunteers, who work in the Dupayne, have the means and the opportunity for murder. One of them has the ruthlessness to kill and kill again.The investigation is complicated for Dalgliesh by his love for Emma Lavenham, but their relationship, at a sensitive stage for them both, is continually frustrated by the demands of his job. As step by step he moves closer to the murderer, is the investigation taking him further away from commitment to the woman he loves?

Without warning, a final-year Cambridge student leaves and takes a job as a gardener. Eighteen days later he''s found hanging by the neck in his cottage. Cordelia Gray, sole proprietor of the Pryde Detective Agency, uncovers long-suppressed family secrets. The full-cast dramatisation of this bestselling novel stars Judi Bowker as Cordelia Gray with Anna Massey as Miss Leaming.

A small, private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath has been inherited by three siblings, all of whom are required by the family trust to sign any new lease. Without the new lease the museum will have to close. One brother, Neville Dupayne, is adamant he won't sign. And then the housekeeper, Mrs Tally Clutton, discovers Neville's body in his still blazing car...

El pánico cunde en un hospital tras dos muertes acaecidas en siniestras circunstancias. El superintendente Dalgliesh deberá adentrarse en los entresijos de un hospital en apariencia modélico, sin imaginar el horror que le aguarda al final del laberinto.