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When a chilling scream pierces the night, Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh rushes from a literary gathering to the Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he finds a woman's body—chilled to the bone by a chisel‑blunt heart. Delving beneath the clinic's serene Georgian facade, Dalgliesh uncovers layers of intrigue and realizes he faces a killer as intellectually menacing as he is revered. This case forces the seasoned detective to confront his first real threat of failure as he races to stop a killer poised to strike again.
First publish date: 1963
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: P. D. James
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