Devices and Desires

About this book

Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.

1. A Taste for Death 1986
2. Devices and Desires 1989 This book
3. Original Sin 1994
4. A Certain Justice 1997

Subjects

• adam dalgliesh (fictitious character)
• dalgliesh, adam (fictitious character)
• dalgliesh, adam (fictitious character), fiction
• detective and mystery stories
• england, fiction
• fiction
• fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
• fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
• great britain
• great britain. metropolitan police office
• large type books
• novelas policiacas inglesas
• police
• serial murderers