National Bestseller Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh Devices andDesires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caughtin a... » 

National Bestseller Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh Devices andDesires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caughtin a net of secrets ambitions and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolkcoastline. Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new bookof poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksokenheadland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt.But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women isat large in Norfolk and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. Andwhen Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officeron the beach he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secretsof the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of hiscareer. «