National Bestseller.
Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is
a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in
a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk
coastline.
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of
poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote
Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to
him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic
strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to
Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered
body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself
caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland
community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.
