A Taste for Death
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 513
- ISBN-13
- 9780571248919
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Taste for Death (1986) arrived nine years after Death of an Expert Witness -- one of the longest gaps in the series -- as P. D. James returned to Dalgliesh's world at 513 pages, one of the longer entries. It's the seventh novel, preceding Devices and Desires.
Key facts about A Taste for Death
P. D. James wrote A Taste for Death, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1986. The book has 513 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780571248919 to find the main one.
A Taste for Death is book 7 of 14 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with Cover Her Face (1962).
Additionally, P. D. James writes Cordelia Gray as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Death Comes to Pemberley is the latest published P. D. James book on file, from 2011.
About P. D. James
P. D. James (1920-2014), full name Phyllis Dorothy James, was a British crime novelist best known for the Adam Dalgliesh series, fourteen novels following a Scotland Yard detective who is also a published poet, and widely credited with elevating the classic English detective novel into more psychologically serious, literary territory. See every P. D. James book in order.
Its place in Adam Dalgliesh
A Taste for Death is book 7 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows Death of an Expert Witness. It is followed by Devices and Desires. See the full Adam Dalgliesh reading order.
Adam Dalgliesh is a Scotland Yard Commander who is also a published, critically respected poet -- a deliberate pairing that lets P. D. James write murder mysteries with the density and moral seriousness of literary fiction. Across fourteen novels spanning nearly half a century, James sets her cases in tightly closed, institutional worlds -- a forensic science lab, a theological college, a private psychiatric clinic, a publishing house, a remote island retreat -- and uses the murder investigation to expose the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140129540
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780571248919