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Pemberley, año 1803. Han pasado seis años desde que Elizabeth y Darcy se casaran, creando un mundo perfecto que parece invulnerable. Pero de pronto, en la víspera 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. Sin previo aviso, Pemberley se zambulle en un escalofriante misterio.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell''s private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week''s peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset''s most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder, and later a second death, which are to raise even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt.A new detective novel by P. D. James is always keenly awaited and "The Private Patient" will undoubtedly equal the success of her worldwide bestseller "The Lighthouse". It displays the qualities which P. D. James'' readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterisation, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery. "The Private Patient" is a powerful work of contemporary fiction.

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.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and security. However, the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves, Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under her. Hardly have the team begun to unravel the motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing... Michael Jayston reads this complete, full-length novel about a murder in a secluded lighthouse, by bestselling author P. D. James The peace of Combe Island is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered murder, thriller, crimer, p d james, Michael Jayston, Combe Island, the lighthouse cd, the lighthouse audio, p d james audio, p d james cd, p d james lighthouse audio, p d james lighthouse cd, dalgliesh audio, dalgliesh cd, michael jayston audio, michael jayston cd, lighthouse unabridged

St. Cedd''s Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also had to contend with the news of her son''s sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, the sly single mother, Sally Jupp. On the following morning, Martingale and the whole village are shocked by the discovery of Sally Jupp''s body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life. P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has a large extended family.

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 pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence.