P.D. James

Recuperamos una novela de la genial autora ausente de nuestro catálogo: un caso de Adam Dalgliesh, el emblemático detective creado por P.D. James. Primera entrega de la serie «Adam Dalgliesh». La eno

«Eran dos, y supo instantáneamente y con absoluta certeza que estaban muertos, los habían degollado y parecían animales sacrificados en medio de un charco de sangre.»Séptima entrega de la serie «Adam

Muerte de un forense es la sexta entrega de la serie protagonizada por el emblemático detective Adam Dalgliesh. Por la gran dama de la novela negra, P.D. James.Tras la muerte violenta de un forense mientras trabaja en su laboratorio, Adam Dalgliesh, el detective, poeta y protagonista de las novelas mas celebradas de P.D. James, debe hurgar en la intimidad de los cientificos vinculados a la victima por sus tareas, problemas, satisfacciones e incluso celos profesionales.Todos ellos son especialistas en el comportamiento de la muerte: gente preparada para hallar en un cadaver indicios sobre las causas del deceso, para averiguar cuando y como se produjo este, y para desenmascarar a un criminal con un microscopio o un tubo de ensayo.En este caso, sin embargo, el asesino podria hallarse en el mismo laboratorio.Opinion: Una maestro de la literatura policiaca.Time

Una inolvidable novela de misterio que empieza donde terminaba Orgullo y prejuicio. Un logro de la imaginación que respeta la sutileza del mundo de su gran maestra. P.D. James es una autora que cuenta con miles de fieles lectores. Un magistral homenaje a Orgullo y prejuicio y Jane Austen, su autora preferida. Pemberley, año 1803. Han pasado seis años desde que Elizabeth y Darcy se casaron para crear un mundo perfecto que parece invulnerable. Pero de pronto, en la vispera de un baile, todo se tuerce. Un carruaje sale a toda prisa de la residencia, llevandose a Lydia, la hermana de Elizabeth, con su marido, el desafortunado Wickham, que ha sido expulsado de los dominios de Darcy. Sin embargo, Lydia no tarda en regresar, conmocionada, gritando que su marido ha sido asesinado... Pemberley se zambulle en un escalofriante misterio.Opinion:Una novela perfecta.USA Today

La autora explota los recursos del thriller para ofrecer un magistral retrato de la condición humana. Philippa Palfrey es hija adoptiva. Crece creyendo ser la hija ilegítima de un aristócrata, pero al cumplir los dieciocho años las ansias de conocer a sus verdaderos progenitores la llevan a enfrentarse a una tragica realidad: su padre fue un violador y su madre una asesina. Incredula y al mismo tiempo horrorizada, Philippa quiere saber mas, hasta que su vida se convierte en un autentica pesadilla.

Adam Dalgiesh, el poeta detective que ha protagonizado las novelas más conocidas de P.D. James, tendrá que relegar a un segundo plano sus problemas de salud, para enfrentarse a un nuevo caso. P.D. James, una de las mas destacadas representantes de la literatura inglesa contemporanea, ofrece en La torre negra una muestra cabal de su talento para la novela de misterio de calidad. El detective Adam Dalgliesh ha estado alejado del servicio debido a una enfermedad, y ahora debe visitar a un antiguo amigo de la familia, capellan en una casa de reposo, para intentar recuperar la energia perdida. Sin embargo, apenas alcanzado su destino, debera concentrar sus fuerzas en desvelar que se oculta tras una serie de muertes en apariencia accidentales.

Un nuevo caso para el detective Dalgliesh, protagonista emblemático de la autora de novela negra P.D. James. Tercera entrega de la serie «Adam Dalgliesh». Todo lo que Dalgliesh necesitaba era unas tr

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 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?

THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME (Guardian) A legend.VAL MCDERMIDP. D. James took the classic crime novel and turned up the dial.MICK HERRONPerfect - a touchstone British murder mystery.5* reader reviewPERFECT FOR FANS OF VAL MCDERMID, RUTH RENDELL AND ELLY GRIFFITHS__________________________________________________________________________________Murder has priority. Wasnt that what they always said at the Lab?When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the remains is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatts forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory, Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia to meet a wealth of potential suspects and cautious forensic scientists quick to pass on the blame. But while Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions that lie hidden beneath the calm surface of the laboratory, the murderer is lying in wait to strike again . . .__________________________________________________________________________________Arguably the finest of the series . . . Brilliant.Financial TimesShe does for a forensic science laboratory in East Anglia what Dorothy L. Sayers did for Oxbridge.New York TimesP. D. James at her very best - fabulous writing and great story line - what more does anyone want or need?5* reader review**Now a major Channel 5 series**__________________________________________________________________________________READERS LOVE THE ADAM DALGLEISH SERIES:Adam Dalgleish is one of the best characters in modern detective fiction. 5* reader reviewIf you are not already an Adam Dalgliesh fan, I urge you to become one . . . James can describe a scene or delineate a character with precision and depth, like no other writer I have read . . . I usually stay up all night to read a P. D. James novel once I start one.5* reader reviewI would never give less than 5 stars to any P. D. James book. She is one of a kind, always constant, always wonderful writing, always great characters, and always a good mystery that you cannot put down. 5* reader reviewP.D. James writes mysteries for ordinary people. Her characters are relatable and her hero is dynamic. But dont expect cell phones or computers. Her stories are strictly old school, which is what I love about them.5* reader reviewCrime writing at its very best! 5* reader reviewPRAISE FOR P. D. JAMES:P. D. James is the creme de la creme of crime writers. Her books are shrewd puzzles, full of wit and depth.IAN RANKINNobody can put the reader in the eye of the storm quite like P. D. James.SUNDAY EXPRESSOne of the literary greats. Her sense of place was exquisite, characterisation and plotting unrivalled.MARI HANNAHJames manages a depth and intelligence that few in her trade can match.THE TIMESThere are very few thriller writers who can compete with P. D. James at her best.SPECTATORThe queen of English crime.&...

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.In Devices and Desires, award-winning P. D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, The Murder Room and Children of Men) plots a chilling investigation into the motives of a cold-hearted serial killer. This novel was adapted for BBC television in 1984 and starred Roy Marsden as the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh.

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. Philippa embarks on a thrilling investigation, enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents'' whereabouts.From the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death in Holy Orders, Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity, blood ties, guilt and revenge.P. D. James has been influential as a crime writer for many years and her writing is often compared to the work of authors such as Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.

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.