A Taste for Death by P D James, ISBN 9780571248919

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An Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous secrets.

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About the Author: P D James

P D James is an English author. mostly of murder mysteries. Her full name is Phyllis Dorothy James White. She always has a dictionary and a thesaurus, a stack of lined A4 paper and several black ball point pens on her desk. When asked what her 'favourite weapon' was, she replied "none", and went on to explain that elderly ladies, however murderous, and unlikely in the UK to have access to guns. It is with the same realism and preciseness that her novels are written.
She worked in the British civil service for 30 years, including the Police and Criminal Law Department of Great Britain's Home Office. In 2000 she turned 80 and published her autibiography, Time To Be In Earnest, and was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. She lives in London and Oxford.

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