Muerte en el seminario / Death in Holy Orders

from eleanor_eader

In Death in Holy Orders, eleventh in the Adam Dalgliesh crime fiction series, his planned vacation is rerouted to a place he once stayed as a boy, a small religious college in an isolated coastal region, where a young ordinand's death has been designated as an accident, but an anonymous letter to...

from deep220

 What a great murder mystery and a throw back to the old school detective novels. A body is discovered on the coast of England. Accident, suicide, or murder? When Adam Dalgliesh comes to investigate, readers will know it must be murder. Then an old woman is murdered, and the plot thickens. Dalgli...

from judithrs

Death in Holy Orders. P.D. James. 2001. I always forget what a wonderful writer James is. She is such a pleasure to read. Adam Dalgliesh returns to an Anglo/Catholic seminary to investigate the apparent suicide of one of the students. Most of the faculty and several of the students all become sus...

from MrsLee

This is not my favorite kind of detective story. No humor to speak of. Inspector Dalgleash is admirable, but not engaging. The mystery and story are good, but a bit too much spelling out the nasty details of peoples sex lives for me to enjoy it. I like theose details to be a mystery too. Somethin...

from the.ken.petersen

Set in Lowestoft, just down the road from me, this is an excellently constructed novel based around a retreat. The whodunnit nature of the book is superbly handled and, I would be awarding five stars, without question, if it were not for Father John. Father John has been imprisoned for offences a...