A Taste for Death

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Author(s)\Editor(s): James, P. D. – – Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20051108Standardized Book Category: Mystery \u0026amp; Detective – TraditionalLanguage: \n \n EnglishPage Count: \n \n 00480Publisher Marketing: \n \n NATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this \”treat for mystery lovers\” (USA Today), the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew’s Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, and Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum. – Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV \”A first-rate detective novel, but it goes beyond that fine achievement to another realm…. An intricate, compassionate novel.\” –The Boston Globe How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice–all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death….