Innocent Blood, P. D. James
Innocent Blood, P. D. James
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Innocent Blood

Author: P. D. James

Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta

Unabridged: 11 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2009


Synopsis

P.D. James is “the greatest living mystery writer.”–People

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
    
“As a crime novel,” wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is “the peak of the art.” “Flawlessly crafted . . . profoundly, masterfully moving,” Cosmopolitan concurred.

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

This book has an interesting premise. The main character, adopted and raised by a well-to-do family, discovers that her origins are not as she has fantasised, but much, much bleaker. (view spoiler)[ Her natural father and mother raped and killed a child. What would happen if such a person, still only 17, decided t (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Manny

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Goodreads review by mark

who hasn't imagined that they were actually a child of mysterious fortune, an heir, a living legacy of romantic adventure? does anyone imagine the opposite - the legacy instead one of squalid violence and tawdry misadventure, straight from tabloid headlines? this early revelation is only the first o......more