Susan D. (leecat2) - , reviewed on 4/3/2015 + 44 more book reviews

P D James is one of my all-time favorite authors and her detective Adam Dalgliesh never disappoints. Beware...it is good to have a dictionary on hand and a source for googling, especially for church architecture, which I can never keep straight.
Set mostly in London, A Taste For Death starts out with a Member of Parliament being sent a blackmail letter accusing him of several deaths. After having a mystic experience in a non-descript London church, he returns to spend the night, after resigning his seat and finding his wife pregnant. The next morning he is found with his throat cut and a tramp, dead in the other room. A special team of detectives set out to discover whether it was murder or suicide.
I give it a four, as it has an action-packed finale. I prefer more quiet endings, than chases an SWAT teams. Lesser James is still great, however.

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