NATIONAL BESTSELLERΒ β’Β Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline. β’ Part ofΒ the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV
βTaut.... Absorbing.... Better than her best.β βThe New York Times Book Review
βA masterful writer.... Devices and Desires seems to be that highly prized workβa terrific tale of suspense and detection that also delivers the satisfaction of a mainstream novel.β βThe Wall Street Journal
Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.