Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 8) - Softcover

James, P. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400076242 ISBN 13: 9781400076246

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

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.

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"Like the wind-lashed Norfolk headland buffeted by the sea, which is so tangibly evoked, Devices and Desires -- has an intensely bracing chill." --Sunday Times

"The characters are vibrant, the writing distinguished, the descriptions of mood and landscape perfect -- a haunting Norfolk mist of dread, loneliness and ancient history." --Sunday Express