Saturday, May 14, 2022

P. D. James

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“Venetia Aldridge is a criminal lawyer of large talents and small personal charm, working at a venerable London firm … As she tries to save a young lower-class tough who is accused of murdering his prostitute aunt, we learn that she is in a position to ruin a number of professional lives, and is of precisely the temperament to do it … [Then] the lawyer is murdered – discovered in her locked chambers in a particularly gruesome tableau … Dalgliesh … moves with grace and acumen through the blood-soaked crime scene, guiding his more volatile staff through the interviews that nuweave the tangled web of multiple deceit and mixed motive."

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This is my second P. D. James’s book. Thed first was The Private Patient. Nither was ipresssive. This one is even more boring. There were murders, office politics, bad mother-and-daughter relationship. A very, very slow reading. Fortunately, I only have two of her books in my library.