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A Certain Justice by P.d. James
$12.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead in her chambers. Commander Adam Dalgleish, ca ...Show more
A Taste for Death by P.D. James
$22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser.
Two bodies, their throats cut with brutal precision, lie in a waste of blood in the dingy vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Dalgliesh arrives to begin his investigations.
A Taste for Death by P.D. James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivit ...Show more
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Cordelia Gray | Reading Level: very good
Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark, a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia is required to delv ...Show more
Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh 1) by P. D. James
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser.
The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as "the greatest living mystery writer." Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to m ...Show more
Cover Her Face (Faber 80th Faber Firsts) by P.D. James
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
St Cedd's Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also had to contend with the news of her son's sudden e ...Show more
Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of ...Show more
Death Comes to Pemberley (TV Tie-In) by P. D. James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of ...Show more
Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James
$22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The scientists who work at Hoggatt's laboratory are all experts in violent death, accustomed to the smell of the mortuary. Now the brutal murder of one of their own brings Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from Scotland Yard to the fens of East Anglia, where a murderer is waiting to strike again.
Death of an Expert Witness ( Adam Dalgliesh 6 ) by P.D. James
$19.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail, intrigue and suspense. When a young girl is found murdered in a ...Show more
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is ter ...Show more
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
$22.95 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Reading Level: good
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is taking a brief respite from publicity on the Norfolk coast, in a converted windmill left him by his aunt. But he cannot easily escape murder - a psychopathic strangler is at large in Norfolk.