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Always love P.D. James work. I always want a trip to England after reading her stories. A pleasant middle class English woman and a somewhat young male urchin who follows her around discover two dead bodies during an early morning visit to church. Isn't that just so P.D. James-like :-)
Of course the story develops with lots of mysterious English characters as the plot unfolds with the constant question of was it a suicide or a murder. Always enjoy Dalgliesh's method of discovery and the people he surrounds himself with. I admit I had to look up the word toepath to figure out what it was and I'm always amazed at how much English I learn each time I read P.D. James. I'm sorry she has passed. She was such an excellent writer.


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A Taste for Death Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries No 7 P D James Books Reviews

Ms. James gets a bit gorier than usual here, which is great. Sometimes you have to wait through a lot of atmospherics to get to a murder in her books, but in this one she cuts to the chase, and it's nice an old church, two bodies, a tramp and a lord. Great setup, and after it, I don't think she lets you down. She doesn't write "puzzles" in which there are a lot of pieces which have to fall gently into place by the end. Throughout her books, you always have a certain sense who the bad guy probably is, but you don't mind the minutiae of detection, since you get to visit so many wonderful British places, meet so many upstairs/downstairs characters, and suffer so many difficult relationships on the way. I'm always kind of disappointed when her books end.
Here is one of the best mysteries I have had the pleasure to read. Though I still have a few remaining works of Ms. James on my list, this book has a resonance that few authors manage to achieve. The characters and the themes blend to create a work that is greater than the sum of its parts. At its heart, this is the story of a man who after achieving everything for which he has sought finds himself curiously unsatisfied with both life and the rewards of his efforts. Accordingly, solving the mystery not only means finding out who did the deed, but why our victim was distraught and unsatisfied despite tremendous achievements. Readers of this author will immediately recognize that her protagonist struggles with related issues and the pages of this book are devoted to the creation of several like-minded characters who each add their perspective to what is in reality an attempt to solve the mystery of life itself; where can one find true happiness and satisfaction?

I believe that the special quality of this book is found in its characters; I should think that the mix is so broad that any reader can find at least one with whom to identify. It does no harm to the mystery to remark that though the victims could not be further apart in terms of social standing and achievement, the author teaches that we are all ultimately equals in death. The author also manages to keep multiple story threads open and believable--this is far more difficult a task than it sounds. Until I encountered P.D. James, I found mysteries to be much like old episodes of Star Trek--if the character who transports to the surface is not one of the regular cast you instantly know that the character has but moments to live. Likewise, too many mystery novelists betray the story early in the book or else they create characters that are incapable of stirring the emotions of the reader--flaws thankfully avoided by P.D. James.

The best fiction encourages one to think about one's own life; it encourages and suggests how we may better ourselves and the world in which we live. This book leaves its reader a better person for having encountered the story; if not, it is not the reader who is without excuse.

Highly Recommended.
Set in London; enjoy British stories. Somewhat unusual plot...not predictable. Kept me reading but not page-turning exciting. I would recommend it for mystery lovers. It is also very well written...strong vocabulary, good sentence structure and length. The author paints lengthy descriptions of settings, using adjectives that allow the reader to "see" the scene with clarity. However, sometimes it is almost too much description, making this reader anxious to get back to the story. All in all, quality novel.
This was a typical P.D. James novel with Adam Dalgleish in the lead. Determining if the incident was a murder or suicide is tricky since the aristocratic family seem anxious to close out the matter and go on with collecting their inheritances. In her usual style P.D. James never writes one word when she can write a hundred. Her descriptions are long and detailed detracting from the main theme. Even the most minor of characters is described in great detail. Reading her work can be exhausting. Each time I finish one of her novels, I swear it's last one. And then I find another.
I thought I had read all of PD James' work, but I had missed this one. It's a great story, with wonderful insights into people, how they think, how they became the people they are and what they decide to do when confronted with problems. From the aristocrat and the tramp murdered in the vestry of a run down, not very successful church led by a not very successful minister, this book abounds in great, complex characters who are always more than they appear to be on the surface. I was particularly interested in the portrayal of Kate Miskin, who may have appeared before in James' work but who plays a major role in this novel in not only solving the crime but in humanizing the people who do the difficult work of cleaning up after life's careless people as F. Scott Fitzgerald called them. The tension between Kate and her colleague Massingham, both trying to do demanding jobs and each believing the other has it easy when considering family obligations gives readers a sense of the fact that these detectives are people first dealing with their own problems while trying to figure out lives very different from theirs.
Always love P.D. James work. I always want a trip to England after reading her stories. A pleasant middle class English woman and a somewhat young male urchin who follows her around discover two dead bodies during an early morning visit to church. Isn't that just so P.D. James-like -)
Of course the story develops with lots of mysterious English characters as the plot unfolds with the constant question of was it a suicide or a murder. Always enjoy Dalgliesh's method of discovery and the people he surrounds himself with. I admit I had to look up the word toepath to figure out what it was and I'm always amazed at how much English I learn each time I read P.D. James. I'm sorry she has passed. She was such an excellent writer.