P. D. James

A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling series of murders.Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful haven for the elite. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from the islands famous lighthouse in what appears to have been a murder, the peace is shattered. Commander...

National BestsellerMurders present meet murders past in P.D. James&'s latest harrowing, thought-provoking  thriller.  Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum  dedicated to the interwar years, witha room celebrating the most notorious murders  of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the...

The Children of Men begins in England in 2021, in a world where all human males have become sterile and no child will be born again. The final generation has turned twenty-five, and civilization is giving way to strange faiths and cruelties, mass suicides and despair. Theodore Faron, Oxford historian and cousin to the omnipotent Warden of England,...

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his upper lip. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins and the...

Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a stranglers fingers forever marring her lily-white throat.Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...And it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who...

An Adam Dalgliesh NovelRead P.D. James in Large Print!It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and she does. But...