From the back cover: P. D. James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her … [Read more...] about Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James
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The Private Patient by P. D. James: B
Book description: In James's stellar fourteenth Adam Dalgliesh mystery, the charismatic police commander knows the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a 47-year-old journalist murdered soon after undergoing the removal of an old disfiguring scar at a private plastic surgery clinic in Dorset, may be his last. Dalgliesh probes the convoluted tangle of motives and hidden desires that swirl … [Read more...] about The Private Patient by P. D. James: B
Innocent Blood by P. D. James: B
From the back cover: Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, exercises her legal right to apply for a copy of her birth certificate when she becomes eighteen. Although she has always had a fantasy of being the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father and now dead mother, she soon learns the shocking truth about her parents—and finds that her mother is about to be released … [Read more...] about Innocent Blood by P. D. James: B
The Children of Men by P. D. James: B-
From the back cover: The human race faces extinction. It is annihilation brought not by disease or nuclear war, not by crashing meteorites or colliding stars. Men and women have ceased, simply, to procreate. In 1994, sperm counts hit zero; pediatrics wards were rapidly and permanently depleted. Overnight, it seemed, the human race had lost its power to breed. Now, 25 years … [Read more...] about The Children of Men by P. D. James: B-
The Lighthouse by P. D. James: A-
From the back cover: Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty. Owned for centuries by the same family, it now serves as a place where over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority can come to find serenity in conditions of guaranteed security. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from … [Read more...] about The Lighthouse by P. D. James: A-