num_pages: 433
description: National Bestseller. 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.
language: English
title: Devices And Desires
titlecomplete: Devices And Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)
characters: Meg Dennison, Miles Lessingham, Jonathan Reeves, Neil Pascoe, Adam Dalgliesh, Chief Inspector Rickards, George Jago, Theresa Blaney, Alice Mair, Alex Mair, Ryan Blaney, Caroline Amphlett, Hilary Robarts, Amy Camm
genres: British Literature, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 14453
places: Norfolk, England
series: Adam Dalgliesh
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: このミステリーがすごい！
category: Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan
publisher: Vintage