From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic
work rich in tense drama and psychological insight.
On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs
precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future.
When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy's
influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Enter Adam
Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and
discovery. The son of a parson, and having spent many happy boyhood
summers at the school, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for
the truth in this remote, rarified community of the faithful-and the
frightened. And when one death leads to another, Dalgliesh finds himself
steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden
pasts, where someone has cause not just to commit one crime but to begin
an unholy order of murder. . . .
Praise for Death in Holy Orders
"Gracefully sculpted prose and [a] superbly executed mystery . . .
Death in Holy Orders is among [James's] most remarkable and
accomplished Dalgliesh novels."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
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"An elegant work about hope, death, and the alternately redemptive and
destructive nature of love."--The Miami Herald**
"Absorbing . . . [James's] plotting and characterization [are]
impeccable."--Orlando Sentinel
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"P. D. James is in top form."--The Boston Globe**
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