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| Original Title: | The Private Patient |
| ISBN: | 0571242448 (ISBN13: 9780571242443) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Adam Dalgliesh #14 |
| Characters: | Adam Dalgliesh, Kate Miskin, Rhoda Gradwyn |
| Setting: | Dorset, England |
P.D. James
Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.79 | 14456 Users | 1420 Reviews
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I read many Adam Dalgleish novels back in the days when I did not keep a record of my reading. So it seemed right to go to the last one in the series and see what happened to the man over all those years. And it was nice to see him tying the knot at last as well as solving one last case for us in his inimitable way. P.D. James is an acquired taste because she does go into an enormous amount of detail. She really wants her reader to see her settings the way she saw them herself and occasionally does go a little far! However her books are so well written I can forgive her easily. This is not an exciting, gripping thriller. Rather it is a beautifully written police procedural, comfortably paced and very, very British. It was a pleasure to read.
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| Title | : | The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh #14) |
| Author | : | P.D. James |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | August 28th 2008 by Faber (first published January 11th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 14456 Users | 1420 ReviewsComment On Based On Books The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh #14)
A new departure for me as I was listening to this on my journey last week to Liverpool as an audiobook. It meant as I wound my way through rural Dorset and up into Wiltshire and on up to Bath before finally getting on to the motorway if I got stuck behind those people who only seem to drive once a year and then always in front of me I didn't have the normal frustration that seems to ride personnified as a regular passenger on those journeys. Listening to a well read book made me a more patientI only seem to update when I didn't really like a book, but maybe I just want to warn everyone. James started out as such a compelling mystery writer and her prose is still good, but her books have become more and more tedious over time. She's become, I think, far too enamored of her own regular characters and too much of the writing is focused, not only their thoughts and feelings, but of the minutia of their actions. I think it was almost page 200 before we read about an interview with a
I actually read this on my iPhone and it is the perfect portable book. PD James keeps the mystery moving, but still keeps things simple enough to follow so that you can pick up in different spots on the go. I don't think I noticed as much in previous books how uncomfortable her characters are in their lives. She's always kept Dalgliesh somewhat distant, but in this one, where she hints again at this possibly being his last case, we see more of his life and in some ways I got a better sense of
3.5 rounded upOn November the twenty-first, the day of her forty-seventh birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered, Rhoda Gradwyn went to Harley Street to keep an appointment with her plastic surgeon, and there in a consulting room designed, so it appeared, to inspire confidence and allay apprehension, made the decision which would lead inexorably to her death.Now that's a sentence that grabs one's attention, and, if you plan to do the 2020 Popsugar Challenge it will meet
What a wonderful read, great characterization, interesting plot with wonderful descriptions ... just a bit too long-winded for me sometimes. I did get a bit lost in the overload of details that often didn't add to the overall story unfortunately. However, I enjoyed this read and I would take my hat off to anyone who at the age of 88 can produce such an entertaining novel. PD James is an inspiration!
When you pick up a P.D. James mystery, you know that you are in the hands of a professional. Cleanly plotted, meticulously detailed, characters revealed layer by layer, hers are the epitome of the "British mysteries" in the tradition of the great Agatha. It is a tradition that I know and love."The Private Patient" is her latest entry in the saga of Commander Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard. It is a police procedural with, as usual, James' touch of humanism.We find that Dalgliesh is about to
So I have a lot against this book. First, I've seen reviews that compare this book/author to Agatha Christie and NO, JUST NO. I've read almost every Agatha Christie, some of them several times, and I barely could make myself read two of P.D. James' books (I read the second one because I convinced myself it HAD to get better. Not true).The character development in this is spectacularly lacking, and the conversations feel forced. The only people I liked were Benton and Kate. The only two
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