Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh), P. D. James

Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh), P. D. JamesWhen Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his aunt's estate. But the peace of Larksoken is illusory. A serial killer known as the Whistler is terrorizing the neighbourhood and Dalgliesh is drawn into the lives of the headliners when it soon becomes apparent that the Whistler isn't the only

Aunt Miriam

The design is elegantly simple

Though in some cases the archeological evidence is sketchy

Release nervous energies and restore balance as you spin

a luckless British medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice simply because he was the only soldier unaccounted for when these baffling crimes were committed

Exquisite and captivating

In the years that follow

largely inhabited by men

March 1957

as well as chapters on Abraham

The book encourages women to listen to their bodies

Very Good (does have initials of previous owner at the top of first page)