A Mind to Murder

Name: A Mind to Murder
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: P. D. James
ISBN: 9781415959459

Author: P. D. James

Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 12/09/2008

Categories: Fiction, Crime, Psychological, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural

Synopsis

Award-winning author P.D. James' second mystery in her bestselling series featuring Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh is now available on CD!

When the administrative head of the Steen Psychiatric Clinic is found dead with a chisel in her heart, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Dalgliesh must analyze the deep-seated anxieties and thwarted desires of patients and staff alike to determine which of their unresolved conflicts resulted in murder. Widely acknowledged as "the greatest contemporary writer of classic crime" (The London Sunday Times), P. D. James received the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award for long-term achievement in 1999.

“…a superbly satisfying mystery."–Chicago Daily News

About The Author

P. D. James was the author of twenty books, many of which feature her detective hero Adam Dalgliesh and have been televised or filmed. She was the recipient of many honors, including the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature, and in 1991 was created Baroness James of Holland Park. She died in 2014.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark

here's a little story for you... so a famous San Francisco lobbyist - a lively raconteur, a darling of the media, and an infamously debauched homosexual - had a birthday celebration. because this was a man who helped build the careers of many politicians, his birthday party was a rather public affai......more

Goodreads review by JimZ

I read a short story by P.D. James about 3 weeks ago, ‘The Victim’, and liked it a lot — I liked this novel also. I must say I was about 100 pages into it and still found it boring. Just goes to show…and why I am less apt to abandon books midstream…. sometimes a book can turn around and capture your......more

Goodreads review by John

Very satisfying mystery I got it almost correct. The motive was staring me in the face. However, PD James teases us with a few red herrings. So who did it? A doctor, nurse, secretary, janitor? The list of suspects are strong with each having a motive. Like Dalgliesch I tried to make it more complica......more