Death in Holy Orders
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9780375413841
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death in Holy Orders (2001) is the eleventh Dalgliesh novel and a turning point in the series: it introduces novelist Emma Lavenham, whose slow romance with the reserved, widowed Commander threads through the remaining books. At 496 pages, it sits between A Certain Justice and The Murder Room.
Key facts about Death in Holy Orders
P. D. James wrote Death in Holy Orders, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2001. The book has 496 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780375413841 to find the main one.
Death in Holy Orders is book 11 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
Death in Holy Orders is book 11 in the Adam Dalgliesh series. It follows A Certain Justice. It is followed by The Murder Room. 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 9780375413841