A Certain Justice : An Adam Dalgliesh Novel

from wdwilson3

Not my favorite Dalgliesh, by a long shot. Solution and explanation of the murders is more by lengthy exposition by the perpetrators rather than deduction by the investigating team. While James' prose is wonderfully, bleakly, descriptive, as always, a lot of the book is devoted to the inner thoug...

from sbsolter

A Certain Justice is probably my least favorite P.D. James I've read so far. It is certainly a complex and intricate mystery, with the usual crisp writing, which I enjoyed, but overall it felt rather uneven. There was a lot of time spent with the narrative focused on the suspects, describing thin...

from bibleblaster

Picked this up after running across Lisa Scottoline's "Top Ten Books About Justice." I was planning on skimming it for a sermon, but the characters drew me in and I ended up reading the whole thing. "It is good for us to be reminded from time to time that our system of law is human and, therefore...

from reading_fox

One of James' better mysteries, helped I think by the fact that my edition was one of Penguin's newly issued 'old style' covers that evokes a certain nostalga for a world that is passing. As such it's a fitting cover for this book. Temple Chambers his the professional home of some of London's lea...

from antao

I too read Asterix comic books that I've read before. The memories of reading them as a child, the familiarity of the characters and the incidents, the dialogue even. Of course, there are lots of reasons why we might want to return to a book. Reading a book again is not just reading it for a seco...