Description

Author/Contributor(s):	James, P. D.
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	5/11/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrillingand insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions,and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.
• Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV

“Taut…. Absorbing…. Better than her best.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A masterful writer…. Devices and Desires seems to be that highly prized work–a terrific tale of suspense and detection that also delivers the satisfaction of a mainstream novel.” —The Wall Street Journal

Commander Dalgliesh of ScotlandYard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicityon the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill leftto him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic stranglerof young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with everykilling. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting AdministrativeOfficer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secretsof the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.