This is exactly the kind of book that would only attract my despise in a bookshop; why would I bother reading crime fiction while I would have so many opportunities so read history books or novels based on real stories?
But, once you're stuck in Birmingham, heartbroken and bookless (which is by far worse than being heartbroken!), and you have a 5 hours journey back in London, using a coach service that will prove to be not so efficient...you'd better give a keen look to the half dozen books shelved in the nearby Spar.
Hence my PD James choice, which I dont regret, because after having begun that book few months ago, I read it again and finished it within two days. Not only are the characters well described and interesting to follow in the story, but also the crime is well invented and there is a bit of Agatha Christie in the way this novel is written.
So, about th eplot; a famous investigative journalist decides to remove a lifelong scar she has on her face, staying for that in Dr Chandler-Powell's Clinic in Dorset. The Manor in which the clinic is settled looks like those old A. Christie's places where seeing Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple wouldnt seem odd at all.
Unfortunately for Rhoda, the journalist, there are no Poirot nor Marple, but only murder...that Commandant Dalgiesh will have to solve with his team of super-detectives.
So, maybe from now on I'll check more often the crime fiction shelves :)
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4627392.ece
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