Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family and soon realizes it is not a case of suicide, and that the truth is entirely more sinister. PD James is the bestselling author of Death Comes To Pemberley, Children of Men and The Murder Room. Her first Cordelia Gray novel An Unsuitable Job For a Woman is a brilliant work of crime fiction packed with secrets and suspense. This novel has been adapted for television twice, the second adaptation in 1997 starred Helen Baxendale as Cordelia Gray.
Now a major Channel 5 seriesThe Queen of Crime. New York TimesWhen the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into a private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life.
P.D. James nació en Oxford en 1920. En 1949 comenzó a trabajar para los servicios de seguridad británicos y en 1968 obtuvo un cargo en el departamento de policía del Ministerio del Interior, donde adquirio unos profundos conocimientos de metodologia polic
A Certain Justice... Although A Certain Justice begins with news of a murder, the victim isn't set to die for another four weeks. Publicly respected but privately loathed, Venetia Aldridge has far more enemies than a brilliant London criminal lawyer should--and at least one of them is determined to do her in. Venetia plies her superior trade in courts that harbour "the illusion that the passions of men were susceptible to order and control," but her past and private life are exceedingly unruly. Her married lover is intent on giving her up; her daughter loathes her; her fellow barristers are determined that she not become the next head of chambers. Even the cleaning woman seems to have something on her. The outline alone of this complex novel would take pages (as would the eclectic inventory of players), but P. D. James makes us admire far more than her brilliantly developed plot. James in fact creates a crowded gallery of surprisingly decent suspects, along with one suitably vile creature--who happens to be Aldridge's last client. A superior murder mystery, A Certain Justice is also a gripping anatomy of wild justice. James's characters can be overcome by hate, but she is equally concerned with love's manifestations--human, divine, destructive, and healing.
Adam Dalgliesh regresa a la costa de East Anglia, escenario de sus años de juventud, para investigar la muerte de un joven seminarista que estudiaba en la Universidad de Saint Anselm. La visita, sin embargo, no le trae solo nostalgicos recuerdos, sino que le enfrenta a una sucesion de horrores, de extrañas relaciones entre los religiosos y los profesores que convivenen el lugar, ademas de encubiertos intereses por los bienes que guarda la comunidad formada por clerigos y seglares.
Un crimen enigmático y perturbador lleva a la pacífica casa de la señora Maxie al inspector Dalgleish; ¿acaso la dócil y graciosa Sally Jupp, la nueva ayudante de la cocinera, no es tan inocente como sugiere su aspecto apocado? Edicion de bolsillo.
A BBC Radio 4 dramatization of an Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Called in to investigate a murder at an Elizabethan manor house, Dalgliesh soon discovers that there is no shortage of motives. As he investigates, the complex secrets and powerful passions of village and family life come into play.
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