num_pages: 400
description: On a desolate stretch of the East Anglian coast, high atop a sweep of cliffs, sits the theological college of St. Anselm's. Down below, smothered by a fall of sand, lies the body of a young ordinand, the son of a powerful business mogul who wants Scotland Yard to investigate his death. Dalgliesh, doubting there is much to uncover in the case, agrees to go, motivated only by a desire to revisit a place where he spent several happy summers in his boyhood. Yet no sooner does he arrive than the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious murder and Dalgliesh finds himself embroiled in one of the most puzzling and horrific cases of his career: no one is above suspicion, and suspects abound.Elevated beyond the great classic detective stories of the Golden Age by the power of the writing, Death in Holy Orders grips and moves us from beginning to end, blessed with extraordinary psychological and emotional richness. The memorable characters and the wonderfully evoked wild coastal setting and religious world in which the action takes place demonstrate yet again why P.D. James ranks as one of the great novelists of our time.
language: English
title: Death In Holy Orders
titlecomplete: Death In Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)
characters: Irfon Jones, Sir Alred Treeves, Margaret Munroe, Karen Surtees, Archdeacon Crampton, Harkness, Paul Perronet, Mr. Mellish, Ruby Pilbeam, Emma Lavenham, Mike Parker, Clara Arbuthnot, Stacey Whetstone, Father Martin Petrie, Father Peregrine Glover, Brian Miles, Father John Betterton, Charlie Ferris, Shirley Legge, Father Sebastian Morell, Eric Surtees, Brian Clark, Henry Bloxham, Agatha Betterton, Elsie Bardurell, Raphael Arbuthnot, Marcus Treeves, Piers Tarrant, Robbins, Mrs. Mellois, Mildred Fawcett, Clive Stannard, Miles Kynaston, Stephen Morby, Roger Yarwood, George Gregory, Adam Dalgliesh, Kate Miskin, Mark Ayling, Giles, Dr. Mallinson, Mr. Norris, Peter Jackson, Barney Parker, Charlie Parker, Ronald Treeves, George Metcalf
genres: Crime, Detective, Murder Mystery, Religion, Thriller, Fiction, Audiobook, British Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 16542
places: East Anglia, England
series: Adam Dalgliesh
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best British Crime Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Premio Pepe Carvalho
publisher: Knopf Canada