THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE ‘QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME’ (Guardian)
‘A legend.’ VAL MCDERMID
‘P. D. James took the classic crime novel and turned up the dial.’ MICK HERRON
‘The most ingeniously undetectable murder method since Dorothy L. Sayers.’ SCOTSMAN
PERFECT FOR FANS OF VAL MCDERMID, RUTH RENDELL AND ELLY GRIFFITHS
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An unfinished manuscript. A murder stranger than fiction.
Battered by the conclusion of a particularly brutal murder case in London, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has escaped for a hard-earned break, which he plans to spend taking long walks with his aunt and doing a little bird-watching in the Suffolk countryside.
But all hope of peace is shattered by murder, when the mutilated body of local crime writer Maurice Seaton is discovered floating in a dinghy near Dalgliesh’s rural idyll. Faced with such a macabre crime, Dalgliesh feels compelled to join the investigation – but as he delves into the dead man''s secrets, the case seems poised to take another murderous turn . . .
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‘Cleverly plotted . . . full of telling detail.’ Edmund Crispin, Sunday Times
‘Wonderful evocative writing – a thriller of the highest calibre. Just loved this book and would recommend to anyone who enjoys superbly crafted detective fiction.’ 5* reader review
‘A very engrossing whodunit with a real sense of location and character. It left me wanting to visit Suffolk and hear a wind coming off the sea, so fierce that you cannot stand upright against it . . . Thoroughly enjoyable.’ 5* reader review
**Now a major Channel 5 series**
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