![]() ![]() This eagerly awaited successor to the international bestsellerThe Murder Roomdisplays all the qualities that lovers of P. ![]() ![]() Hardly has the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects than there is a second brutal killing, and the whole investigation is jeopardized when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder. ![]() Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems and the ambitious Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. 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. A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. ![]()
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Anya Seton's meticulously researched biographical novel The Winthrop Woman is about Elizabeth Fones, the scandalous niece of John Winthrop, one of the Puritan founders and governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His fixation with conspiracy theories, cabals and camarillas, together with his formal vocation in semiotics, I believe, led to his dexterity in both fiction and non-fiction. Unlike his previous novels, Numero Zero is the slimmest in volume, 191 pages to be precise, and also the one with a rather non-convoluted plot, at least in relative capacity.Įco’s stunning grasp of the medieval culture has always amazed me. Most met with success, though none could set the bar higher than his debut novel.Įco’s genius lay in not only constructing beautiful narratives but also in craftily deploying historical facts laced with the fiction of conspiracy theories and media hoaxes. The next three decades witnessed Eco write one seminal book after another. 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