THE LIGHTHOUSE - An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,matt,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Lee Gibbons illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean. Publisher's bright,clean, original,plain dark green paper-covered boards with bright,blocked white ink letters to spine/backstrip,green+ white headband,and immaculate plain green endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED - without dedication,1st edn,3- 323pp [paginated] includes Prologue,Books 1-4,an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title pages,a dedication,contents list/ table,author's note and 2pp blanks to rear.
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now,privately owned,it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security.But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.Adam Dalgleish is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly,but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team.
Dalgleish is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham,the woman he loves.
Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems and the ambitious Anglo-Indian Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate.
Hardly have the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing and the whole investigation is jeopardised when Dalgleish is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.
This eagerly awaited successor to 'The Murder Room' displays the qualities which aficionados have come to expect of P.D. James: sensitive characterisation,an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place.
'The Lighthouse' is a subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.
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