The Lighthouse

Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns in -The Lighthouse-, PD James' number three bestseller. Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers rest and seclusion to over-stressed professionals who have paid the price of getting to the top. But when one of these distinguished visitors is found hanging from the top of the island's lighthouse, murder - not suicide - is suspected. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are immediately called in: the investigation must be swift, discreet, decisive. However, Dalgliesh has his work cut out, since both residents and visitors to Combe Island guard their privacy well - even when murder makes them a suspect. Does the islanders' reticence betray a knowledge of the crime? Another death and Dalgliesh's own life in danger throws the entire investigation into jeopardy...From the author of -A Taste for Death- and -A Certain Justice- comes -The Lighthouse-. PD James' hero Adam Dalgliesh returns for more. Praise for -The Lighthouse-: -It does everything a crime novel should - and then a whole lot more-. (-Daily Mail-). -PD James on top form and you will love it-. (-The Spectator-). P.D. James is the queen of crime fiction and the author of numerous bestsellers including -A Taste for Death-, -Original Sin-, -A Certain Justice- and -Death in Holy Orders-. She lives in London