A Certain Justice
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 466
- ISBN-13
- 9780571354245
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Certain Justice (1997) is the tenth Dalgliesh novel, published as P. D. James's reputation as one of the defining British crime writers of the twentieth century was firmly established. It runs 466 pages and precedes Death in Holy Orders, the book that introduces Emma Lavenham.
Key facts about A Certain Justice
A Certain Justice is a novel by P. D. James. Readers have had it since 1997. It runs to 466 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of A Certain Justice. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780571354245 to find the main one.
A Certain Justice is book 10 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 Certain Justice is book 10 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows Original Sin. It is followed by Death in Holy Orders. 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 9780679460855
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780571354245