Ginette B. (Niteowl7) reviewed on 6/28/2006 + 242 more book reviews

P.D. James is one of my favorite British mystery writers. Talk about literate! She has been praised as "A craftsman with a poet's vision....she not only detects evil but attempts to uncover the more elusive - and enduring - enigmas of the human psyche that lead to it. Adam Dalgliesh is the detective called upon to unravel the mystery where the administrative head of a psychiatric hospital is found near her office with a chisel in her heart and a weird phallic symbol in her arms. Dagliesh peels away the motives - and the elusive psyches - of all the characters associated with the murdered woman which makes this book so much more interesting than your ordinary police procedural. The surprising ending encompasses a heady mixture of psychiatry, sex and drugs.

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