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  Loading...Tod an heiliger Stätte [Vollständige Taschenbuchausgabe 2003] (original 2001; edition 2003)by P. D. James, Phyllis Dorothy James, Christa E. Seibicke (Übersetzer)Series: Adam Dalgliesh (11)MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions2,453None2,498
  (3.73)50 Add to your library Add to wishlist▾Book informationMember:aliena0811Title:Tod an heiliger Stätte [Vollständige Taschenbuchausgabe 2003]Authors:P. D. JamesOther authors:Phyllis Dorothy James, Christa E. Seibicke (Übersetzer)Info:Droemersche Verlagsanstalt TH. Knaur Nachf. 2003 (2003), Edition: Vollständige Taschenbuchausgabe, Taschenbuch, 542 pagesCollections:2013, Read but unownedRating:Tags:2013Work detailsDeath in Holy Orders by P. D. James (2001) all members▾MembersRecently added bycapewood, ebethjd, cybrarianfirst, private library, vise, jasbro, Marlin.Library, Askapart, bog-frb, Hushasha40 numbers show all▾Tags
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  Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.▾Conversations (About links)No current Talk conversations about this book.» See also 50 mentions▾Member reviewsEnglish (37) German (1) Spanish (1) All languages (39)date ▼ | votesShowing 1-5 of 37 (next | show all) P. D. James continues to write very literate and interesting mysteries featuring her well-read inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This recent edition has a great story, although the motivations of the murderer left me disbelieving. His rationale just did not seem especially valid, but the scenarios and characters are complex and interesting. The setting for this novel is St. Anselm's, a small theological college on a lonely stretch of the Anglian coast, so isolated that a fallen tree on the only road to the college can effectively block all access to it. The students are housed in an old Victorian mansion with all sorts of nooks and crannies. Increasingly threatened by the financial burdens on the college, the local archdeacon wants to close the college -- he becomes one of the murder victims -- but his past ties with one of the teachers make his judgments suspect. All of the professors and some of the ordinands (those studying to become Anglican priests) have nefarious events in their past or antipathy toward one or other of the rest of the characters. A local police inspector is there for a while, recuperating from psychological problems, and he has reason to hate the archdeacon, an antipathy reciprocated because of the investigator's investigation into the death of the archdeacon's first wife and his ongoingl certainty of the archdeacon's culpability. Dalgliesh becomes involved because he had been asked to investigate the ostensible suicide of one of the ordinands who had apparently killed himself by lying under an outcropping of sand and then causing it to collapse suffocating himself. Dalgliesh has nostalgic memories of the college, having spent some time there in his youth. By the end of the investigation, several others have been killed in order to hide a secret — and this is where the plot falls apart, I think — that would have, by necessity, have come out in any case. In a portrayal of human evil, James reveals a nasty mess of intertwined jealousy, greed, deceit, anger and revenge, not to ignore murder. The ultimate cause of the murders is the endowment that, if the college is closed, will pass to the remaining professors, or to the heir of the Arbuthnot estate. It gets wonderfully complicated, and James's nonpareil writing holds one enthralled right to the end despite my earlier caveat. ( ) ecw0647 | Sep 30, 2013 | At a small training college for Anglican priests, the son ofa high powered businessman is found dead on the beach.The father is not satisfied with the results of the inquestand demands that Scotland Yard send an investigator out tolook into the situation. The death hastens the discussionsabout closing the college, which brings other issues thatcloud the situation surrounding the first murder, includingthe fact that other murders follow. This is the first AdamDagliesh mystery that I have read and I really enjoyed thecharacter. I liked the way she writes as well as that sheweaves a complex web of information and continues to contribute to the information as if she were part of the investigation team feeding you information. Numerous twists and unexpected turns. ( ) jlapac | Aug 14, 2013 | This was my first James, and for a long time I was enjoying it as a bit of old-fashioned Agatha Christe-esqe escapism.The setting - a remote windswept theological college resembling a monstery (though in fact Church of England) - was a nice enough twist on one of Aunt Agatha's remote country houses.Smetimes something quite trivial annoys me about a book, after which I find it difficult to regain my sympathy.In this case it was a peculiar note about one of the police officers. She has been so outraged by the Macpherson Report (which found 'institutional racism' in the Metropolitan Police) that she was thinking of leaving the service. "She was illegitimate and brought up ... in one of the bleakest inner city areas. Blacks had been her neighbours ..." The notion that having black neighbours should be worthy of comment is even more old fashined than the concept of illegitimacy. Pointing out that the Met was racist is akin to the old adage about bears in the woods. In the seventies and eighties racism in the Met was of almost surrealist proportions. It has improved greatly since and the improvement did preceed Macpherson - beginning really with the Scarman report in 1981 which first described the Met as institutionally racist.All this has nothing much to do with the novel; but it just made me realise how out of touch with the real world this book by an ex Home Office mandarin was.After that I found the plot increasingly improbable and the conclusion so convoluted as to beggar belief.No. I don't rate James as the new Christie. Maybe I took it too seriously. GeorgeBowling | Jul 29, 2012 | In Death in Holy Orders, eleventh in the Adam Dalgliesh crime fiction series, his planned vacation is rerouted to a place he once stayed as a boy, a small religious college in an isolated coastal region, where a young ordinand's death has been designated as an accident, but an anonymous letter to his father has since aroused suspicion - Dalgliesh arrives to find not one suspicious death at the college, but two, and these are followed by a brutal and very obvious murder. I find P. D. James refreshing to read; her non-series characters (those who are not Dalgliesh, his colleagues, or connected to him personally) are incredibly well written, no matter how peripheral they may be. I've begun making a point of picking one up whenever a previous book disappoints me in terms of characterisation – to prove to myself that I'm not just being picky, that it's possible to infuse any genre with individuals who are neither lazily portrayed, nor overplayed to compensate. There are other female crime writers who are just as strong in this area, but I'm on a P. D. James kick just now, because she also plots and instils atmosphere wonderfully, as well; in this book, the sadness and isolation were layered with beautiful subtlety. Death in Holy Orders seemed a little long-winded in places (there seemed to be more 'middle' to this book than was strictly necessary) but a very rewarding read. ( ) eleanor_eader | Mar 11, 2012 | Readers have come to expect genuine, human characters, unique settings, and a unique plot from P.D. James. In this novel, she delivers on every level. The Catholic church carries a certain amount of mystery in itself, so it made a perfect place for a murder story. As usual, James takes her time in drawing each character, making readers emotionally invested in the novel. This is a really great crime novel. ( ) es135 | Jan 14, 2012 | date ▼ | votesShowing 1-5 of 37 (next | show all)
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  (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:47:57 -0400)(see all 8 descriptions)▾Library descriptionsThe untimely death of a young priest in training draws Commander Adam Dalgliesh back to East Anglia to investigate at the request of the young man's father, as Dalgliesh finds himself drawn into a complex and violent mystery.(summary from another edition)» see all 5 descriptions	Quick LinksAmazon.com (direct)Abebooks.comAmazon Kindle (3 editions)Audible (2 editions)CD Audiobook (1 edition)Project Gutenberg (0 editions)Google Books — Loading...WorldCat
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