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Synopsis

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, conflict and dangerous secrets as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder ...

A masterly exploration of an isolated community coping with the evil and disruption of murder, this is the classical English detective story at its very best.

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Customer Review: 10 September 2003

Reviewer: marc ball from newmarket

The first book I have read by this author but most certainly not the last. The characters are very well defined and mysterious and the plot well concealed and intriguing. One can almost imagine being a student at the college and it's easy to feel the fear and confusion that being interned behind its forbidding walls would bring as one at a time rather unfortunate incidents continue to occur!!

Critic Review:

'A grand gothic novel of gut-wrenching suspense, satisfying at all levels ... Nobody can put the reader in the eye of a storm quite like P.D.James'
Frances Fyfield, Sunday Express

'It is a long time since I submerged myself in a book with such blissful enjoyment'
Susan Hill, Country Life

'Death in Holy Orders is pure pleasure'
Spectator

'At the height of her powers ... thoroughly gripping'
Sunday Telegraph

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