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La enorme y respetable casa de los Maxie, en el apacible rincón campestre de Martingale, es el lugar ideal para que la joven Sally Jupp críe tranquilamente a su hijo.

An Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Set in her beloved East Anglia, Death in Holy Orders is the fourteenth novel in P.D. James' Adam Dalgliesh series and a thrilling work of crime fiction filled with intrigue and suspense. Death in Holy Orders is set in an Anglican theological college on a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast, a location which she has made particularly her own.

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail, intrigue and suspense. When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own.

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorising the neighbourhood and Dalgliesh is drawn into the lives of the headlanders when it quickly becomes apparent that the Whistler isn't the only murderer at work under the sinister shadow of the power station.

Innocent Blood is a standalone thriller and chilling mystery from P.D. James, the best-selling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men. Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever.

Mystery Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets.

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Commander Adam Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be. Dalgliesh is determined to discover the truth of his friend's death.

As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georgian terrace's unassuming façade. Professionally, he has never known the taste of failure. Now, for the first time, he feels unsure of his own mastery as he battles to unmask a cool killer who is proving to be his intellectual equal, and who is poised to strike again.

The acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the golden age of crime writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories contained four of these perfectly formed stories, and this companion volume contains a further six, published here together for the first time. As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each.

"Le cadavre aux mains coupées reposait au fond d'un canot à voile qui dérivait tout près de la côte du Suffolk. C'était le corps d'un homme entre deux âges, un petit cadavre pimpant. " Cet homme, c'est - ou plutôt c'était - Maurice Seton, célèbre auteur de romans policiers. Pourquoi l'a-t-on assassiné? Qui est l'auteur de cette macabre mise en scène ? Adam Dalgliesh mène l'enquête, avec l'autorité et la subtilité que connaissent désormais les lecteurs de P.D. James.

Adam Dalgliesh debe investigar el asesinato de la señora Bolam, la antipática administradora de la clínica Steen, un selecto centro psiquiátrico donde ingresan pacientes adinerados que valoran en igual medida la atención médica y la discreción.

Pemberley, le domaine ancestral de la famille Darcy, dans le Derbyshire, abrite le bonheur conjugal d'Elizabeth Darcy. Elle est la mère de deux charmants bambins ; sa sœur préférée, Jane, et son mari, Bingley, habitent tout près ; et son père adulé, Mr Bennet, vient régulièrement en visite. Mais cette félicité se trouve soudain menacée lorsque, à la veille du bal d'automne, un drame contraint les Darcy à accueillir la jeune sœur d'Elizabeth et son mari, que leurs frasques passées ont rendu indésirables.

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the second novel to feature the famous female detective Cordelia Gray of the Pryde Detective Agency. Set on the sinister Courcy Island, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is a thrilling murder mystery. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production of The Duchess of Malfi, to be played in Ambrose Gorringe's sinister castle at Courcy Island. Cordelia is there to ensure her safety following the appearance of a number of poison-pen letters.

P. D. James'sextraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist as well as diaries recording her in old age. In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth birthdays and looks back on her earlier life.

Todo lo que Dalgliesh necesitaba era unas tranquilas vacaciones junto al mar, largos paseos, una taza de té al calor de la chimenea y, lo mejor de todo, nada de cadáveres ni pesquisas criminales. El hallazgo del cuerpo mutilado del escritor Maurice Seton echará por la borda todos los sueños del emblemático detective poeta creado por P.D. James y lo llevará, de incógnita en incógnita, a intentar dilucidar un nuevo caso.

A collection of four short stories from P. D. James, published together for the first time. As the acknowledged "Queen of Crime", P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write special short stories for Christmas. Four of the very best of these have been rescued from the archives and are published together. P .D. James' prose illuminates each of these perfectly formed stories, making them ideal listening for the darkest days of the year.

Martingale, la belle propriété des Maxie dans la campagne anglaise, est une bien grande maison et, avec un mari paralysé sur les bras, Mrs. Maxie est soulagée lorsque son amie, la directrice du Refuge St. Mary, lui propose une de ses pensionnaires, Sally Jupp, pour servir à table. Certes, la jeune femme est ce qu'il convient d'appeler une mère célibataire et elle a insisté pour ne pas être séparée de son enfant, mais par ailleurs, elle est si jolie, si reconnaissante, si docile...

Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web! This anthology includes both original stories like a brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like The Blue Air Compressor by Stephen King, and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age! Now, let's join Lilja....

Adam Dalgliesh inddrages i en sag fuld af lidenskab og kærlighed. Og selvfølgelig en god del mystik. The Dupayne i London - et mindre privatejet museum med speciale i mellemkrigsårene - er i oprør. Bestyrelsen kan ikke blive enig om, hvorvidt museet skal lukke eller ej, og pludselig findes et af bestyrelsesmedlemmerne brutalt myrdet.

Una barca si arena sulle coste del Suffolk. A bordo c'è il cadavere del famoso giallista Maurice Seton. Le mani gli sono state mozzate: un macabro dettaglio che lo stesso Seton aveva inserito nel progetto del suo nuovo libro. Suo malgrado l'ispettore Adam Dalgliesh, in vacanza nella regione, viene coinvolto nel caso dagli amici e dai vicini di casa del morto. Un gruppetto di persone rispettabili. In apparenza. Ma con troppi segreti e troppi rancori nascosti. Una nuova, inquietante sfida all'acume investigativo di Dalgliesh.