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A subtle and powerful work of modern-day fiction.
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty however now, privately owned, it includes respite to over-stressed women and men in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is named directly into solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a hard 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 the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there's a second brutal killing, and the complete investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious so that as potentially fatal as murder.
This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestseller The Murder Room displays all the qualities that lovers of P. D. James’s novels around the world have come to anticipate: sensitive characterization, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.
From the Hardcover edition.
