P D James: 187 books

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the...

**National Bestseller. ** Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic.  When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation...

Invited to protect an actress within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, Detective Cordelia Gray finds the stage is set for death. Actress Clarissa Lisle has always been famous for her ravishing beauty—and her unscrupulous manipulations. Now on the death-shrouded island of Courcy,...

A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling series of murders. Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful haven for the elite. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from the island’s famous lighthouse in what appears...

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into...

Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more? "Splendid, macabre,"...

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...

Esta es la historia novelada de un suceso que todavía hoy remueve la conciencia de los británicos. Novela basada en un hecho real que conmocionó a la sociedad británica de comienzos del siglo XIX. Un crimen consterna a la sociedad londinense: dos familias, en una zona popular de...

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...

Una novela de la gran dama de la novela negra y el crimen. Cordelia es responsable de una agencia de investigación de poca monta, pero sir George Ralston la elige para que custodie a su esposa, la actriz Clarissa Lisle, alejada de los escenarios tras recibir una serie de anónimos alarmantes. Pese...

En un ambiente en apariencia de desenfado de universitarios de lujo, Cordelia tendrá que descubrir poco a poco que quizá a nadie más que a ella le interesa averiguar la verdad... La primera de las muertes que ocurren en este libro es sin duda un suicidio: Bernie Pryde se dispara un tiro...

«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 Dalgliesh». Adam Dalgliesh tendrá que desvelar en esta ocasión el misterio...

Una novela negra escrita por la gran dama del crimen y protagonizado por el detective emblemático Adam Dalgliesh. Combe Island, en la costa de Cornualles, antiguo marco de piraterías y comercio de esclavos, propiedad de familia Holcombe desde el siglo XVI, se ha convertido en lugar de reposo...

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal. Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway...