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An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery, Book 8
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P. D. James
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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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Reseñas de la Crítica
"Taut.... Absorbing.... Better than her best." (The New York Times Book Review)
"I have often thought of mysteries as the sorbets of literature, something light and tangy to clear the palate between more serious courses. The books of P.D. James, however are more substantial fare, fulfilling as well as delicious, and Devices and Desires is no exception." (The Washington Post Book World)
"A masterful writer.... Devices and Desires seems to be that highly prized work - a terrific tale suspense and detection that also delivers the satisfaction of a mainstream novel." (The Wall Street Journal)
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- De: James Robertson
- Narrado por: Tom Cotcher
- Duración: 15 h y 59 m
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For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband, and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies - until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might just be Satan.
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Fantastic
- De Christopher en 07-06-08
De: James Robertson
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Red Ribbons
- Dr. Kate Pearson, Book 1
- De: Louise Phillips
- Narrado por: Caroline Morahan
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave - her body identically arranged. The hunt for the killer is on. The police call in criminal psychologist Kate Pearson to get inside the mind of the murderer before he strikes again. But the more Kate discovers about the killings, the more it all feels terrifyingly familiar.
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A true psychological thriller
- De BARBARA WAGONER en 12-24-16
De: Louise Phillips
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A Pleasure and a Calling
- A Novel
- De: Phil Hogan
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all. William Heming's most at home in a stranger's private things.
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The Invisible Man
- De Janice en 02-05-15
De: Phil Hogan
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Fallen Into the Pit
- An Inspector Felse Mystery
- De: Ellis Peters
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Helmut Schauffler, a young Nazi working in the small English village of Comerford, sets out to play upon the post-war sensibilities and fears by terrorizing his new neighbors.
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A peek into an earlier time.
- De ShySusan en 11-28-11
De: Ellis Peters
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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Jar City
- De: Arnaldur Indridason
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason’s novels featuring Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson became international sensations on their way to selling millions of copies worldwide. The debut of morose detective Sveinsson finds the inspector and his team delving into the murder of a retiree with horrifying secrets.
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Cerebral Police Procedural
- De Aaron en 09-14-13
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The Magus
- De: John Fowles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 26 h y 19 m
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John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: John Fowles
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The Stranger House
- De: Reginald Hill
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 16 h y 26 m
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For years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to travellers. People like Sam, a brilliant young mathematician, who believes that anything that can't be explained by maths isn't worth explaining. And Miguel, a historian running from a priests' seminary, who sees ghosts. Sam is an experienced young woman, Miguel a 26-year-old virgin.
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an OK read
- De Jen Terry en 01-18-08
De: Reginald Hill
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A Test of Wills
- De: Charles Todd
- Narrado por: Samuel Giles
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired officer has been murdered, and Rutledge goes to investigate.
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Difficult to follow the narrator
- De Carol en 01-02-13
De: Charles Todd
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The Coroner
- De: M. R. Hall
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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When lawyer Jenny Cooper is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she's hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute and the fate of Marshall himself?
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Best book of the year, so far.
- De karen en 05-11-13
De: M. R. Hall
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The Good Apprentice
- De: Iris Murdoch
- Narrado por: Christopher Cazenove
- Duración: 20 h y 41 m
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Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity, and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity, and his motives.
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A Squabble of Smartypants
- De Geoff Maddison en 09-10-12
De: Iris Murdoch
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P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven Full-Cast Dramatisations
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Greta Scacchi, Hugh Grant, full cast, y otros
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Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.
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Desert Island drama
- De Adeliese Baumann en 02-13-18
De: P. D. James
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Innocent Blood
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Penelope Dellaporta
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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 the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
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A Classic British Mystery
- De Karen Vincent en 12-23-14
De: P. D. James
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Penelope Dellaporta
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Handsome Mark Callender did not die the way a young gentleman should. He was found hanged, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a nude girl's picture nearby. The official verdict was suicide, but his aristocratic father suspects murder. He hires Cordelia Gray, a fledgling detective, to investigate. And as she follows a trail of guilty secrets and shameful sins, she concludes that the nicest people do the nastiest things!
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quite suitable
- De Holly Helscher en 01-20-09
De: P. D. James
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The Mistletoe Murder
- And Other Stories
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Jenny Agutter, Daniel Weyman
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time - swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment".
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I worship at the alter of p d james
- De Sherrie Lindley en 08-09-17
De: P. D. James
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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good debut novel
- De Stevon en 11-11-19
De: Elizabeth George
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Becoming Sherlock - The Red Circle
- Becoming Sherlock, Book 1
- De: Sarah J. Naughton, Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Alfred Enoch
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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We are 40 years into the future, and London is a city in decay. John Watson has returned from medical service in the war in Afghanistan and lives by himself in a run-down part of town. On his way home from work, he stumbles upon a beaten man in the street – unconscious and completely naked. His chances of survival are minimal. The same evening, a passenger plane crashes in Richmond Park. There are several hundred victims, and Watson and the mysterious man are left to their own devices.
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Excellent. Especially the narration.
- De Jennifer90046 en 03-15-25
De: Sarah J. Naughton, y otros
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P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven Full-Cast Dramatisations
- De: P. D. James
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Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.
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Desert Island drama
- De Adeliese Baumann en 02-13-18
De: P. D. James
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Innocent Blood
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Penelope Dellaporta
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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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 the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
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A Classic British Mystery
- De Karen Vincent en 12-23-14
De: P. D. James
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Penelope Dellaporta
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Handsome Mark Callender did not die the way a young gentleman should. He was found hanged, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a nude girl's picture nearby. The official verdict was suicide, but his aristocratic father suspects murder. He hires Cordelia Gray, a fledgling detective, to investigate. And as she follows a trail of guilty secrets and shameful sins, she concludes that the nicest people do the nastiest things!
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quite suitable
- De Holly Helscher en 01-20-09
De: P. D. James
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The Mistletoe Murder
- And Other Stories
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Jenny Agutter, Daniel Weyman
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Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time - swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment".
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I worship at the alter of p d james
- De Sherrie Lindley en 08-09-17
De: P. D. James
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A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
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good debut novel
- De Stevon en 11-11-19
De: Elizabeth George
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Becoming Sherlock - The Red Circle
- Becoming Sherlock, Book 1
- De: Sarah J. Naughton, Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Alfred Enoch
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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We are 40 years into the future, and London is a city in decay. John Watson has returned from medical service in the war in Afghanistan and lives by himself in a run-down part of town. On his way home from work, he stumbles upon a beaten man in the street – unconscious and completely naked. His chances of survival are minimal. The same evening, a passenger plane crashes in Richmond Park. There are several hundred victims, and Watson and the mysterious man are left to their own devices.
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Excellent. Especially the narration.
- De Jennifer90046 en 03-15-25
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- swambold
- 03-29-21
Windmill of My Mind
Although I liked A Taste of Death better than this title, this was a fine tale. Adam Dalgliesh goes to settle his Aunt Jane’s estate and stays in her windmill home. Of course, he encounters murder. The philosophical passages are absorbing. Dalgliesh is as perceptive as the listener would expect. There is one episode that I would have preferred left out. See if you can determine which one. Listen with mostly pleasure!
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- Helen Stephens
- 08-15-22
Well done.
I love P. D. James and this is one of her very best. Thank you Ms. James.
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- Paul Hapip
- 11-03-23
A complex riveting story
PD James is a master of the complex mystery with many twists and turns and red herrings in evidence. All her books are wonderful.
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- night owl
- 07-13-17
Great Plot Ruined by too much introspection
Great plot with great characters. Problem is there isn't a scene without deep philosophic thought or memories.there are also too many long conversations. I like a book that makes me think ,but not one that tells me what to think. I got used to Miss Dellaporta but she's definitely past her prime.P D James is still heads above others writers even with my complaints.
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- Voracious Reader
- 11-23-22
Well read but too long.
The narrator is excellent.
I watched the TV series "Dalgleish" and enjoyed it. I didn't realize how much it was abridged. Having never read P.D. James before now, I found the actual story much too long and all the in-depth character studies a bit tedious. I was also disappointed that Dalgliesh wasn't more central to the story. I acknowledge that P.D. James is an excellent writer, I just don't know if I will listen to another book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-19-12
Great Interesting Read, Good Performance
I enjoy the English reader, she does a good job with this book. Nice change of pace. The story is the thinking kind of mystery with enough colorful characters and interesting English countryside to hold your interest through a relatively long book.
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- Barbara D Payne
- 02-22-22
Different than most
This book had multiple stories that eventually wove together, separate investigations, and some endings that only the reader knows about, but not the detectives it was a bit wordier than the other Dalgleish novels, which is saying alot since they are all pretty wordy The narration is good, although a bit dramatic. This was not one of my favorites, but worth a listen because a less than perfect P D James is still a reslly good book
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- Pattie Kassube
- 06-23-16
Character development rich, unexpected plot twist
As usual, Ms James' Adam Dalgleish does not disappoint. With Adam being more of an observer, this story seems to develop characters that you see and feel their presence. Great plot twist and epilogue.
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- Mesajazz
- 04-08-22
As Always, Great Dalgliesh
This is one I’ve read several times and love. This is the first Audible version of it I’ve listened to and much prefer reading it. The narrator prefers to make the full cast of women sound as if they are all over 90 and sound very shrill. Someone new to this book would have a very difficult time trying to understand what age group each character falls into. I will be avoiding her narrations from here forward. The book is actually a very good outing for the author, however.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-23
Devices and desires
A great book, PD James build up of characters and plots. Leave the reader wondering till the end
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