Death in Holy Orders

Published 02/04/2020 | Paperback / softback
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Now a major Channel 5 series’The Queen of Crime.’ New York TimesWhen the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man’s theological college, St Anselm’s, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, secrets and mystery as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder . . .

‘Thoroughly gripping.’ Guardian’Pure pleasure.’ Spectator