Adam Dalgliesh · Book 10
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.
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