Product Description
When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own. When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again.

About the Author
P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

352 pages

The first victim was quite an unpleasant person, but it is not a good reason for murdering him. Nothing is. Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory is an unusual place for a murder. How about a chapel? The murderer never asks if others think a place suitable for murder. He or she chooses the place and the victim and others must be happy with that. If they are unhappy it does not change the things.
This is a good detective story. I must read more of this kind...

This is my # 32 (100) in
"REDUCE MOUNT TBR 2011" Challenge arranged by Dove-i-Libri.

I left the book at the foot of a statue at Kungsträdgården Metro Station.
Happy reading!

The book wanted to come to Spain! Let's see how it is! :D

Novela ligera de asesinato e investigación forense de los años setenta del pasado siglo. Es gracioso ver lo mucho que han servido los avances en ADN. Básicamente el libro hubiera durado la cuarta parte.